BIB_ID
292338
Accession number
MA 1625.47
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 June 23].
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. 85.
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 Church End, Woodford. Addressed to Cher collaborateur. Signed Apemantus (the cynical philosopher in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens).
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 Church End, Woodford. Addressed to Cher collaborateur. Signed Apemantus (the cynical philosopher in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens).
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Stating "I feel to-day that I possess a liver -- doubtless the result of that little green absinthe." Lamenting writer's block, noting that he "can not conceive another story" and that he feels "barren, sterile." Mentioning that he has begun to read "Germinal." Discussing Hedlam's ball, noting that he will not be attending it and stating "my dancing days are over & even the disrespectability of my partner wouldn't be sufficient temptation now." Praising Moore's energy, and further lamenting that "the ideal world ... would be one in which one can see clean paper without wishing to spoil it & woman without wanting to kiss her!" Mentioning their collaborative work on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" and hoping to complete his own Madame de Viole.
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