BIB_ID
292144
Accession number
MA 1625.6
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Jan. 23].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6-25.4 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 28.
Part of a large collection letters from Ernest Dowson to his close friend Arthur Moore, the English solicitor and writer, with whom Dowson wrote four collaborative novels. Items are cataloged individually; see related collection record (MA 1625) for more information.
Written on stationery printed with "Bridge Dock, Limehouse." Addressed to Mon chéri Alphonse (i.e., Daudet.--Cf. Flower, p. 28, n.1). Signed ECD. Postscript ("Letter No. 2") signed Adolfine.
Part of a large collection letters from Ernest Dowson to his close friend Arthur Moore, the English solicitor and writer, with whom Dowson wrote four collaborative novels. Items are cataloged individually; see related collection record (MA 1625) for more information.
Written on stationery printed with "Bridge Dock, Limehouse." Addressed to Mon chéri Alphonse (i.e., Daudet.--Cf. Flower, p. 28, n.1). Signed ECD. Postscript ("Letter No. 2") signed Adolfine.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Looking forward to their meeting the following day, proposing that they visit the theater. Alluding to the "startling innovation" at the British Museum [on 12 January 1889, the Trustees adopted a regulation by which novels published in the last five years could not be consulted in the Reading Room]. Hoping that Moore will "come with [him] to the Watteaus on Sat[urday]." With a second smaller sheet labeled "Letter No. 2" acting as a postscript and responding to a "small epistle" apparently received before Dowson had the opportunity to send the main letter, further discussing their plans for the following day.
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