BIB_ID
292182
Accession number
MA 1625.10
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Feb. 15].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
Letter is headed "Whiskey v Absinthe," with a joking verdict below: "Dowson J that the defendant be non-suited. Leave to appeal refused."
Localized and dated in Flower, p. 35.
Mayfield (not Hayfield) and Daisy Maloney were characters in the revised synopsis of "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" (see MA 1625.9); Heathcote was probably Mayfield's first name.--Cf. Flower, p. 35, n. 1.
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 from "In the High Court of Justice / Intoxicating Liquors Division" on mourning stationery. Addressed to Dear Hayfield. Signed Daisy Maloney.
Letter is headed "Whiskey v Absinthe," with a joking verdict below: "Dowson J that the defendant be non-suited. Leave to appeal refused."
Localized and dated in Flower, p. 35.
Mayfield (not Hayfield) and Daisy Maloney were characters in the revised synopsis of "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" (see MA 1625.9); Heathcote was probably Mayfield's first name.--Cf. Flower, p. 35, n. 1.
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 from "In the High Court of Justice / Intoxicating Liquors Division" on mourning stationery. Addressed to Dear Hayfield. Signed Daisy Maloney.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Mentioning his "jovial journey home" the previous evening, when he had the "good fortune to stumble into a carriage of which the only other occupant was a genial old gent ... who was exactly 3⁰.55'.14'' more intoxicate than" Dowson. Discussing whiskey and absinthe, noting that the former "is inferior to homely Scotch," and that even though absinthe "makes the tart grow fonder," it is also "extremely detrimental to the complexion." Mentioning that Dowson "sobered sufficiently" to read Moore's criticisms and is now anxiously awaiting Ludovicus.
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