BIB_ID
292223
Accession number
MA 1625.17
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Mar. 2].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 43.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
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 E D Ludwig von Soboievski.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
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 E D Ludwig von Soboievski.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Disparaging his work on chapter IV of "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus," and giving suggestions for chapter V, to be written by Moore. Apologizing for his "slackness" of late, noting that he has been "awfully seedy this week" and has been "partaking of naught save beef tea au cognac." With a postscript noting that he "heard from my petite Californienne [Little Flossie] yesterday."
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