BIB_ID
292321
Accession number
MA 1625.43
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 May 26].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Dated and localized in Flower, p. 81.
No salutation. Signed Clement Scott Jnr. (Clement Scott was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph.)
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.
No salutation. Signed Clement Scott Jnr. (Clement Scott was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph.)
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.
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 religious faith, noting that "there is only Pessimism & Catholicism ... Theism strikes me as about the worst kind of balderdash that I have yet come across except perhaps Positivism." Alluding to the closure of the relationship with the barmaid called "Lena," stating "I am more than ever convinced of the futility of bringing any kind of sentiment into one's relations with Woman." Hoping to collaborate with Moore on another work, asking him to "be quick in fashioning a plot," and mentioning his busy schedule and referencing his work for The Critic.
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