Letter from Ernest Dowson, Paris, France, to Conal O'Riordan, 1895? : autograph manuscript signed

Acknowledging receipt of O'Riordan's letter and complaining of the cold and his "awful state of penury"; describing dining "en famille" with the Davray's, and with "the most noble Vicomte de Lautrec," Lautrec's "younger brother," and "the poet Wattein"; elaborating on the latter event, where after dinner they played with a planchette, contacted Satan, then "took haschish" and ended up sleeping on "sofas & mattresses at Lautrec's"; claiming that O'Riordan would like Lautrec and that he [Dowson] regretted that they had not sought Lautrec out when O'Riordan was in Paris; observing that he is writing this in the Café d'Harcourt and that Leopold has just entered the cafe, "so I must cut it short" in hopes that he will ask Dowson to dinner, as he has only 1.50 francs to his name; asking O'Riordan to send him 10 francs; promising to send him "a most amusing Caran d'Ache 'journal' with a military story in it" as long as he agrees to send it on to Arthur Moore in London after reading it; musing on his humble dinner at home and how little it cost; noting he has little idea of the time of day when O'Riordan isn't with him; confessing he has not mailed the letter because "no money came" and "I preferred to spend my two pence on bread"; describing his gratitude at later receiving a letter with some money, and the day spent walking out in the country; describing his meal that evening and the "Christian mood" he "fell in" that evening; wishing O'Riordan was still there; musing on his "utterly vague" travel plans for the next few months.