BIB_ID
432990
Accession number
MA 23477.1
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Seaford, England, 1898 October 30.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Housed with an additional letter from Henley to Gilmer (MA 23477.2) dated November 7, 1898.
Written from "5 West View / Seaford."
Gilmer was the Assistant Editor of the New Review, January 1895 - December 1897 and following that a publisher at Heinemann's and later at the Author's Syndicate.
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "J.W. Gilmer Esq. / c/o Mr. W. Heinemann, / 21 Bedford St. / Covent Garden, / London, / W.C." The address has been crossed through and above it, written in red ink in an unknown hand, "12 Holles Street / W." The envelope has two postmarks, Seaford and London, both stamped October 31, 1898.
Written from "5 West View / Seaford."
Gilmer was the Assistant Editor of the New Review, January 1895 - December 1897 and following that a publisher at Heinemann's and later at the Author's Syndicate.
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "J.W. Gilmer Esq. / c/o Mr. W. Heinemann, / 21 Bedford St. / Covent Garden, / London, / W.C." The address has been crossed through and above it, written in red ink in an unknown hand, "12 Holles Street / W." The envelope has two postmarks, Seaford and London, both stamped October 31, 1898.
Summary
Expressing concern for Gilmer; saying "I've thought of you several times, since I learned from the [illegible] that you had chosen the better part, & gone in for the cure. i would have written, too; but I held it best for you to get the worst over. Ere long I hope to hear from you. Meanwhile, if we may hear of you, it will be good for us both...I'm about as well as I was when I came here to get better. Still, I feel, of late, on the road up to things, and, so far, well. News I have none. News, in fact, is what I ask of you. Send it - or rather get it sent - to Stanley Lodge, to which abode of art & culture we depart on Tuesday. If there be with you who can read, & you can be read to, make them procure the November 'Blackwood', & [illegible] the initial article. 'Tis signed A.B.C.D., & I cannot guess who wrote it. But it has given me pause, & made me rather wonder if I'm in Bedlam or out of it. 'Tis a beastly uncomfortable job you're in for. But it will mean much to you presently, & for many years ( I hope) to come. A little heart, & you're through with it. A little heart & a little patience. God send you all you need of both."
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