1900-03-28 to Virginia Crawford

Autograph letter signed, National Library of Ireland, 229 words

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92 VICTORIA STREET. S.W.

Wednesday [28 March 1900]

Dear Nia,

I was glad to get your letter for I had been thinking of you and intending to write. I wanted to tell you that I am busy at Evelyn and am getting on rather well. I hope to get through the first writing by the summer and once I've got through the first writing the rest will be easy and agreeable. I want to tell you that I do not intend to put the book aside again until I finish it.

I don’t think I’ve anything else to say —  Ah, yes, that I shall probably be in Paris in May and should like to see you there. But the exhibition will have begun and Paris will be odious. Still I shall go to France. I must go to see Monet; he made me promise many times to go to see him and now he is in England and comes to dine here and I have had to renew my promises.

I hope you will have a pleasant time in Rome and will write to me from there.

Always yours

George Moore

I got forty pounds for my description of my own funeral. "Cenerary Vanities" I call it.