Aet. 45, to an Irish playwright, activist and philanthropist. My date for this undated letter is aligned with these points:
- Edward Martyn finished a complete draft of his play The Heather Field in 1894; efforts by George Moore to have it staged continued until 1899.
- Edward Martyn, W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory brainstormed the Irish Literary Theatre in the summer of 1897.
- Yeats’s volume of poetry The Secret Rose was first published in April 1897.
- George Moore’s Evelyn Innes was first published in June 1898.
Yeats’s novel The Speckled Bird was unfinished and unpublished during his lifetime.
The penultimate Chapter 34 of George Moore’s Evelyn Innes described the heroine’s second day in a convent.
Cherubini’s Ave Maria was a motet for mixed voices, usually scored for SATB choir with organ accompaniment.
George Moore’s experiences at Freshcombe Lodge with his friend Colvill Bridger were the literal inspiration for The Heather Field. His memoir of co-founding the Irish Literary Theatre surfaced in Chapter 1 of Hail and Farewell! Ave (1911).
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