BIB_ID
292359
Accession number
MA 1625.50
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 July 7].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 89.
Dowson and Moore's collaborative novel "Felix Martyr" was never completed.
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 "Yacht: "Rover" off Wroxham." Addressed to Cher Théophile (i.e., Gautier, the French author). Signed ED.
Dowson and Moore's collaborative novel "Felix Martyr" was never completed.
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 "Yacht: "Rover" off Wroxham." Addressed to Cher Théophile (i.e., Gautier, the French author). Signed ED.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Mentioning that Dowson has been reading "Diana until I am pink and my brain quivers." Discussing their collaborative work on a new novel, "Felix Martyr," describing a provisional plot outline and giving character sketches. Promising to submit the first chapter soon, and indicating portions of the novel which to Dowson are "a void," noting that he will look to Moore "to supply it with incident, characters & analysis." Briefly describing his trip, mentioning the skipper and his brother (Rowland Corbett Dowson).
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