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 November 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
448605
Accession number
MA 14551.13
Creator
Gray, John, 1866-1934, sender.
Display Date
London, 1892 November 28
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.3 x 12 cm
Notes
Paper stamped at top: "3, Plowden Buildings, Temple" in capital letters.
Dated "Lundi"; date from Vernon 1979.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing Louÿs of his happiness when he received an earlier letter; updating Louÿs of about his improved health ["tout ce que me reste de ma maladie c'est une légère préoccupation de moi même"]; complimenting an unspecified poem of Louÿs' and telling him to be proud of having overcome previously discussed difficulties about the length of sentences required to express the simplest ideas in French ["tu t'étais plaint de la longueur de phrase qu'il fallait pour exprimer en francais les idées les plus simples"]; describing an apartment that Alexander Teixeira de Mattos has bought for him; calling his own letter crazy and asking whether he should come for Christmas; expressing sympathy for what he imagines are Louÿs' poor lodgings.