1886-07 to Théodore Duret

Autograph letter signed, New York Public Library, xx words

[Edited for paragraph breaks, capitalization, spelling and punctuation.]

Care of Mrs. Feist, Southwick Green, near Brighton, Sussex.

[July 1886]

Mon cher Duret,

Je vous envoie le Drame de la Mousseline.

Un malheur peut arriver à tout le monde, pour parler un peu populairement : je cherche et je cherche la lettre perdue. Peut-être la retrouverai-je. Espérons-le. Je suis hors de moi.

Je fais des articles sur l'Irlande pour le Figaro. La campagne est délicieuse.

Write and tell me, my dear friend, and tell me how the Drama in Muslin strikes you. [You] know I value your opinion more than anybody else's. Indeed one word from you is worth more than yards of talk from anyone else.

I wish I were down in the South of France with you: we must pass a summer together. I have never been to Italy. I wish we could go there together.

Goodbye my dear friend and believe me

Yours most sincerely

George Moore