BIB_ID
292341
Accession number
MA 1625.48
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 June 29.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.2 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 My dear Moore. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Written on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to My dear Moore. 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
Relating the definitive closure of his affair with the barmaid called "Lena," stating that she has "bolted." Musing that she "must be a most accomplished little liar -- after all it's one of the qualities of her sex," and referencing the "episode" of Noémie Nioche in James' The American. Admitting that he has "no heart left for anything not even for a debauch," and did not believe he "could be notched so severely by anything as [he has] by this cursed, ridiculous affair." Apologizing for his "maudlin scrawl," and with a postscript asking Moore to dine.
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