BIB_ID
292207
Accession number
MA 1625.13
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Feb. 21.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
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 C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Dear Moore. Signed ECD.
Written on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Dear Moore. Signed ECD.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Discussing their proposed outing with "Le Lapin" [W.R. Thomas], noting that Dowson "absolutely decline[s] to see socca' matches." Asking Moore to write Thomas and tell him "how far nobler it would be to come ... to a matinée" and "how essential to the harmony of the evening it will be that neither Mamma nor any other man of bad character" accompany them.
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