BIB_ID
456095
Accession number
MA 23931.20
Creator
Sherard, Robert Harborough, 1861-1943, 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 folded, 17.6 x 22.8 cm, unfolded
Notes
Written from Sherard's home at 26 Sandhurst Gardens-- now 159 Sangley Road-- Catford, London; dated "Wednesday".
Dowson spent the last six months of his life at Sherard's home.
Dowson spent the last six months of his life at Sherard's home.
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 him that Dowson is staying with him "in my little cottage" but is "not well enough" to write to him or come to visit; asking O'Riordan to come to visit them "tomorrow afternoon on your bicycle; giving him directions to Sandhurst Gardens; concluding "anyway drop him a line."
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