1890-07-21 to Michael Field

Autograph letter signed, British Library, 319 words

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

8 Kings Bench Walk, Temple

Monday night [21 July 1890]

Dear Michael Field,

I write so that you may not forget your promise. If I like the new play I shall be glad to write an article about it in the Hawk, and an article in that paper will be of use to you because it goes among theatrical folk. I am not a quick reader and shall not be able to read your play in a day — perhaps you’d rather I didn't read it in a day.

I will send you the number of the Hawk in which I spoke about you and William Rufus in connection with my project for a Théâtre Libre. It was curious that I should have written about you only a week or two before I met you, and that was the first time I wrote your name.

I daresay you saw that I was much interested in you — my face is most indiscreet, it tells all my feelings far better than my pen. I was sorry that Mrs. Moulton took me away (the observation is only addressed to one side of Michael Field) just as you had kindly asked me to stay. I tried to get back, but Oscar Wilde was on one side and someone else on the other side of Michael Field and — Forgive me [for] my very obvious joking and this long letter which ought to have been a note.

If you can arrange it I shall be very glad to come down and see you. I am afraid you will think me a very gushing person. In truth I am not at all, but I did like William Rufus and the first plays whose names I have never been able to pronounce, much less to spell.

Sincerely yours,

George Moore

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