1885-10-15 to Mary Blake Moore

Menu of Letters 1885

Aet. 33, to his mother. The second edition (called the sixth edition) of A Mummer’s Wife was published in late November 1885.

George, 3rd Duke de Stacpoole (1829–1896) was an expatriot Irish landlord living in France with a papal dukedom. He had scientific and literary interests including a stake in the Hawk newspaper edited by Augustus Moore. He was married to Pauline MacEvoy.

Anna Murphy was George’s maternal aunt.

Nina Moore Kilkelly raised six children.

On 3 January 1885 Augustus married Adelaide Peirson, called Addie Gray, a chorus girl and member of Miss Lila Clay’s Lady Orchestra.

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