BIB_ID
292283
Accession number
MA 1625.32
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889] Apr. 14.
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. 66.
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 Woodford. Addressed to Cher Moore. 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 from Woodford. Addressed to Cher Moore. 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
Describing an outing with the barmaid called "Lena," stating that they "boated to Greenwich & promenaded in the exceedingly desolate park," and noting that she is contemplating a "new Frock for the summer." Mentioning their collaborative work on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus," and hoping to see Moore after he has received Dowson's chapter X.
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