BIB_ID
456080
Accession number
MA 23931.10
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900, sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2025.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Inscribed on first page in a different hand: Received 13/9/97.
Written on mourning stationery embossed "Fairy Hill, Parteen, Limerick". Added in Dowson's hand: c/o J. de Courcy MacDonnell Esq. Fairy Hill was at the time the home of the McDonnell family, headed by John Henry O'Connell de Courcy McDonnell, second lieutenant of the 4th Gordon Highlanders.
Written on mourning stationery embossed "Fairy Hill, Parteen, Limerick". Added in Dowson's hand: c/o J. de Courcy MacDonnell Esq. Fairy Hill was at the time the home of the McDonnell family, headed by John Henry O'Connell de Courcy McDonnell, second lieutenant of the 4th Gordon Highlanders.
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
Telling O'Riordan that he will be staying "here" until October, when he hopes to move to Paris for the winter; saying he expects to receive £300 from his solicitor soon, and when he does he will repay the £2 "you so kindly lent me"; describing how he stayed with Oscar [Wilde] in France before he left, introduced him to Smithers, and got together with [Aubrey] Beardsley, Conder, and the Dal Youngs-- "It lacked only you and Symons"; asking for O'Riordan's news; saying he would like to be admitted as a member of the Authors' Club so he can have a London address; saying he is planning to rent an apartment in Paris and furnish it; describing who he saw and dined with in London on his way to Ireland; wondering about Jepson and Teixeira.
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