BIB_ID
292379
Accession number
MA 1625.52
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 July 17.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 18 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 from "Yacht: "Rover" -- Thorpe, Norwich." Addressed to Dear Moore. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Written from "Yacht: "Rover" -- Thorpe, Norwich." Addressed to 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
Thanking Moore for a letter and praising Norwich. Envying Moore's "glimpse of Mignon" [the child actress Minnie Terry], praising her, and hoping to possess a new photograph soon. Looking forward to returning to London after a fortnight in the Broads, and referencing their collaborative work on the novel "Felix Martyr." Discussing literature, mentioning Meredith, Thackeray, Zola and noting that "when you come to delicacy -- subtlety -- there is only H. James & his master Tourguènef of novelists." Mentioning responses to their contributions in The Critic, and asking Moore to dine. Mentioning "Diana of the Crossways," and wishing he had some absinthe on board. Hoping that Moore has been "more prolific of pen" than his "unworthy collab[orator]."
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