BIB_ID
292209
Accession number
MA 1625.14
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Feb. 22].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 39.
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 Bridge Dock, Limehouse, on mourning paper. Addressed to Dear Moore.
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 Bridge Dock, Limehouse, on mourning paper. Addressed to Dear Moore.
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, giving a "Suggested Programme" of the afternoon and evening. Dowson proposes to begin at 2.10 with the "Meeting of the 2 inferior persons" and to dine at 6.30. Noting that 7.30 will mark the "Dissolution of several buttons on the beatific waistcoat" and that 8 will bring "Emotion. Tears. Hysteria. Profanity."
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