BIB_ID
292262
Accession number
MA 1625.26
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Mar. 30].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.3 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 57.
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 stationery embossed "The New Club, King's Road, Brighton." Stationery heading has been canceled and "c/o J. R. Dowson Esq., St. Aubyns, West Brighton" has been penned in the margin. Addressed to Mon cher. Signed Ernest Dowson.
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 stationery embossed "The New Club, King's Road, Brighton." Stationery heading has been canceled and "c/o J. R. Dowson Esq., St. Aubyns, West Brighton" has been penned in the margin. Addressed to Mon cher. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Briefly discussing their collaborative work on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus," noting that Dowson has "absolutely no ideas as Chap[ter] IX -- & very few as to Chap[ter] X." Describing Brighton as "not so full as usual," and suggesting to Moore that they visit the theater the following week. Alluding to his affair with the barmaid called "Lena" and noting that he is "strenuously forbidden" from her place of employment.
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