BIB_ID
292294
Accession number
MA 1625.35
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Apr. 26.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Charles Sayle, Calvert Hutchinson Swanton and Victor Plarr attended Oxford with 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.
The Critic was a failing weekly, and although it had not long to live, it was proud of its title "the oldest established weekly newspaper int he world" (it dated from 1719). The sub-editorship was first offered to Victor Plarr, who declined it and passed the suggestion to Dowson, who accepted.--Cf. Flower, p. 70, n. 1.
Written from Bridge Dock, Limehouse. Addressed to Arturo carissimo. Signed Thy Collaborator.
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.
The Critic was a failing weekly, and although it had not long to live, it was proud of its title "the oldest established weekly newspaper int he world" (it dated from 1719). The sub-editorship was first offered to Victor Plarr, who declined it and passed the suggestion to Dowson, who accepted.--Cf. Flower, p. 70, n. 1.
Written from Bridge Dock, Limehouse. Addressed to Arturo carissimo. Signed Thy Collaborator.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Mentioning that their collaborative work "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" is prepared for submission to the publisher Routledge. Mentioning that Dowson intends to visit Sayle at Cambridge, but noting that he may be delayed in this trip by the arrival of Swanton. Enclosing (not present) a letter from Plarr which contains an amusing anecdote. Noting that Dowson is to meet with Herbert Williams to "talk things over," stating "if I can work it without too much loss of time to the Dock, I shall take the unremunerative subeditorship of his most comprehensive journal [The Critic] for as long as he will have me." Noting that "experience in journalism won't be a bad thing & it will be an immense jest."
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