Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from John Gray, London, to Pierre Louÿs, 1892 July 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448593
Accession number
MA 14551.6
Creator
Gray, John, 1866-1934, sender.
Display Date
London, 1892 July 16
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.1 cm
Notes
"Godless cousin" references Frank Gray, per Vernon 1979.
Year of writing supplied by Vernon 1979.
Paper stamped at top: "3, Plowden Buildings, / In the Temple" in capital letters.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Recounting a visit from his "godless cousin" who "arrived in London from Ceylon on Thursday evening without a shilling and almost without a shirt"; thanking him for returning a book by Walter Pater that he had lent him because "the return of a book is a thing phenomenal"; postulating that Louÿs returned the book because he did not like it.