BIB_ID
106154
Accession number
MA 2261
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1894 Apr. 13].
Credit line
Purchased, 1963.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Dowson was working on a translation of Zola's La Terre; Plarr was translating Nana in the same series.
Letter dated to 13 April 1894 in Flower (1967), p. 304.
Written from "Bridge Dock / Limehouse." Addressed to Cher Vieux. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Letter dated to 13 April 1894 in Flower (1967), p. 304.
Written from "Bridge Dock / Limehouse." Addressed to Cher Vieux. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Summary
Mentioning that he has been overwhelmed by Zola, disorganized by the death of his housekeeper and "thrilled by other things." Mentioning that he dines with Edgar Jepson "almost daily," and that he has returned his "Rhymers' proofs," and discussing the contents of the Second Book of the Rhymers' Club. With a fair copy of Dowson's poem "Quid non speremus, Amantes?" (dated 9 April 1894) on p. 4.
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