BIB_ID
456092
Accession number
MA 23931.19
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) ; 17.6 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from Robert Sherard's home at 26 Sandhurst Gardens-- now 159 Sangley Road-- Catford, London.
Inscribed on second page in a different hand: N.B. / Probably the last / letter he ever wrote / C (20/2/00).
Inscribed on second page in a different hand: N.B. / Probably the last / letter he ever wrote / C (20/2/00).
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
Reassuring O'Riordan that he is not hurt by what he wrote; thanking him for the money he sent "as medicines are so dear"; stating that his affairs are now settled and asking O'Riordan to come visit soon.
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