BIB_ID
292222
Accession number
MA 1625.16
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Mar. 1].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 42.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
Mabel is probably Mabel Vance, who was likely to have been a child actress.--Cf. Flower, p. 42, n. 2.
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 B[ridge] D[ock] Limehouse on mourning stationery. Addressed to Dear Moore. Signed ED.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
Mabel is probably Mabel Vance, who was likely to have been a child actress.--Cf. Flower, p. 42, n. 2.
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 B[ridge] D[ock] Limehouse on mourning stationery. Addressed to Dear Moore. Signed ED.
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 his difficulty in writing chapter IV of their collaborative novel "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus," and proposing to meet. With a postscript noting that he has received a letter from Mabel.
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