BIB_ID
456089
Accession number
MA 23931.16
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) ; 16.1 x 14.4 cm, folded; 16.1 x 28.2 cm, unfolded
Notes
Written from 1 Guilford Place, Bloomsbury, WC, London.
Dowson's two novels with Arthur Moore are "A Comedy of Masks" (1893) and "Adrian Rome" (1899).
Dowson's two novels with Arthur Moore are "A Comedy of Masks" (1893) and "Adrian Rome" (1899).
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
Asking O'Riordan to forgive his delay in writing and to give him "another fortnight" to repay his debt to him; explaining the legal problems involved; assuring him that "I am on the very best of terms with Smithers," and that the latter "has promised me further work"; hoping O'Riordan is well; telling him that "Our novel (Moore's & mine) is now with Heinemann. It will be called probably 'The Arrangement of Life.'"
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