BIB_ID
292328
Accession number
MA 1625.45
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 June 14.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
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 C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Cher Ami. Signed Ernest Dowson.
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 Cher Ami. 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
Referencing the rejection of their collaborative work "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" by the publisher Sampson Low, proposing that they consider trying to get it published in a magazine. Asking Moore to read Dowson's positive critique of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" in the forthcoming issue of The Critic, noting that "it is the only serious criticism, save that of "A White Lie" which I have ever attempted." Mentioning that in the current Pall Mall Gazette "the ruffian Buchanan is attacked in a most withering & delicious letter by one Shaw."
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