BIB_ID
448520
Accession number
MA 14551.1
Creator
Gray, John, 1866-1934, sender.
Display Date
London, 1892 June 6
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Letter deliberately uses archaic and phonetic spellings.
Gray uses "vous" to refer to Louÿs.
Address at top of sheet: "3 Plowden Buildings / in the Temple".
Dated "Whitmonday 1892".
Kit Marlowe is thought to be a pseudonym for Ernest Dowson and Shakespeare, most probably for Oscar Wilde, per McCormack 1991.
Gray uses "vous" to refer to Louÿs.
Address at top of sheet: "3 Plowden Buildings / in the Temple".
Dated "Whitmonday 1892".
Kit Marlowe is thought to be a pseudonym for Ernest Dowson and Shakespeare, most probably for Oscar Wilde, per McCormack 1991.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Introducing himself; providing "nouvels" ["news"] about mutual friends who are referred to using coded names, such as "Kit Marlowe est descendu soubz les ombrez suite d'ung mahlvays coup de dague a l'oeil" ["Kit Marlow went down under the shadows after taking a dagger to the eye"] and "Shakesper s'occupe a se feyre jouer" ["Shakespeare is keeping himself busy putting on his plays"].
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