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 Ernest Dowson, Paris, France, to Conal O'Riordan, approximately 1895 : autograph manuscript signed

BIB_ID
456071
Accession number
MA 23931.1
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2025.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.4 x 10.7 cm
Notes
Written from 214 Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
Provenance
Sotheby's, 11 March 1968, lot 773; Barry Humphries (1934-2023; bookplate); Christie's, London, "Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection," 13 February 2025.
Summary
Noting that he has dined with Strong "last night" and will dine with Lautrec tonight; discussing their recent letters and the timing of their delivery; enclosing an order for some money, presumably owed to O'Riordan; hoping the delay in sending it hasn't caused inconvenience; noting how long it took him to obtain a French postal order.