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

Addressing O'Riordan as "Dear Exile" and sympathizing that the food in Donnemarie [where O'Riordan is presumably staying, probably with Noblet] "is not all that it should be," though he is not surprised; confessing to having been "seedy" yesterday, not getting out of bed, but telling him that today he rose early and took a long walk in the "charming" suburb of Antony; noting that he has heard from "my young lady" that "a Trilby-boom" has taken over London; noting that, according to another letter from home, Jepson "has embroiled me with everybody. I have just written back to ask what the devil he means by it!"; adding that he has heard from Smithers, who enclosed the proofs of Dowson's story; relating how his friend Leopold "received certain troubles from Russia, the day before yesterday & promptly got extremely drunk here and retired with a most exceptionally ordinary woman to whom he probably gave £100"; noting that Rambosson has placed two fanciful items in a local paper about Dowson and O'Riordan; quoting the items in French and promising to send the paper, which O'Riordan should show to Noblet; mentioning that he "ran across Lautrec the other night & am going to dine with him on Sunday"; claiming "I have no other news that I can think of," that he is "consumed with ennui," and will be departing for Auvergne soon; expressing some playful jealousy of O'Riordan's "visit to the Curé," and likens it to how O'Riordan would feel if Dowson were allowed to dine with General Saussier.