BIB_ID
268224
Accession number
MA 1489.1
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1891 Apr. 28.
Credit line
Purchased, 1953.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Desmond Flower suggests that this item was sent to Arthur Moore (cf. Poetical Works, ed. Flower, p. 251-252 (here designated as manuscript M), 288-289). For surviving letters to Moore from this period see Letters of Ernest Dowson, ed. Flower and Maas, 1967 and the Morgan's collection of Dowson's letters to Arthur Moore (MA 1625).
Provenance
Possibly in the collection af Arthur Moore; sale (Sotheby's, 6 July 1953, lot 198).
Summary
Manuscript differs very slightly from the published version. With an incomplete or fragmentary draft of a triolet in pencil on the verso reading "To think of thee, O death / How very bitter 'tis / To him who pondering plies / His peaceful biz / To him who peacefully plies / His [blank] biz."
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