 Between 1873 and 1882 at least four other of Desprez's poems had been published, two of which are about Texas.In 1884, Desprez began writing for "The Era", London's foremost theatre paper, and he became its editor in 1893, a position he held until illness forced him to retire in 1913.Desprez also wrote dozens of essays on travel, art, music, and famous personalities that were published in English periodicals, most of them between 1905 and 1914.