BIB_ID
292302
Accession number
MA 1625.37
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 May 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
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 Chéri. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Written on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Chéri. 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
Thanking Moore for a copy of his "Stolen Hand" ( a short story), noting that he will give criticisms to Moore in person. Referencing the submission of their collaborative work "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" to the publisher Routledge, and suggesting mottoes for the work ("My life is not life," Calderon; "Woman thou has subdued me," Calderon; and "Let it be -- pass on -- / No good can come of it -- it is not well / To meet it -- it is an enchanted phantom -- / A lifeless idol," Goethe). Hoping to see Moore soon, and asking him to try to procure a copy of Johannes II from one of the "solid old bookshops ... à la Quaritch."
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