BIB_ID
292258
Accession number
MA 1625.25
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889] Mar. 25.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 56.
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 from B[ridge] D[ock], L[imehouse] E. Addressed to Cher Confrère. Signed 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 from B[ridge] D[ock], L[imehouse] E. Addressed to Cher Confrère. Signed 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
Hoping that his previous letter (see MA 1625.24) "hasn't driven [Moore] to a self inflicted grave." Discussing their collaborative work "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus," mentioning that "somehow or other you must kill Lud[ovicus] & It. in the next chapter," and outlining the plot. With a postscript apologizing for his chapter, noting "Love-making is certainly not my speciality [sic]."
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