BIB_ID
456087
Accession number
MA 23931.14
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) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from 6 Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn, WC, London.
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
Obliquely apologizing for not having posted a letter or picked up one of O'Riordan's; pointing out his current address and telling him that he is "starting on a monumental translation for Smithers" which will keep him in London for a while; saying he currently feels very industrious but also pessimistic and unsociable, "But I should like to see you again, if you can come to town."
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