Letter from Ernest Dowson, Arques-la-Bataille, France, to Conal O'Riordan, 1897? : autograph manuscript signed

Asking if O'Riordan can "sound Siemons [sic?]" about any possible work for him; relating how Conder, who was there for a time, met with help from a "good Samaritan, Dal Young" who bought one of his pictures, which solved Conder's immediate financial problems and brought Conder back to England; asserting that Young-- "a marvel of good nature"-- is currently working on selling some shares of Dowson's in the East India Railway Company, which should net Dowson £18 a year, £300 total, but he hasn't yet heard from him and is feeling depressed; begging O'Riordan to send money if he can, but most of all to write to him; recalling a vague mention from Siemens [sic?] of paying Dowson to write a short novel; outlining his plans to rent a house and pay his debts, then work, when the £300 appears; lamenting the fact that "I have never felt so physically well, or so morally fit to work & not to drink as I do at present"; describing recently dining with Oscar Wild "at his seaside retreat" and trying to hide his own worries and "attun[e] myself to his enormous joy in life"; describing Wilde's "delight in the country, in walking, in the simplicities of life" as well as Wilde's appraisal of Conder's conversation as being "like a beautiful sea-mist"; asking O'Riordan to write, and reminding him that "Oscar does not want his retreat generally known; nor his pseudonym"; adding in the enclosed note that he has heard from Young which has cheered him up, although it wil be at least another week before he sees any money; quoting from Young's letter about the logistics of the financial transaction; repeating his desire to "take a house near Rouen"; enclosing a letter to Moore because he cannot afford the separate postage.