BIB_ID
292385
Accession number
MA 1625.54
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 July 26.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Dowson and Moore's collaborative novel "Felix Martyr" was never completed. Dowson is unduly pessimistic about the death of The Critic; it survived for another year, when it merged with the Society (19 June 1890).
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 Bridge Dock, Limehouse, on mourning paper. Addressed to Dear Moore. 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 from Bridge Dock, Limehouse, on mourning paper. 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
Arranging to meet on Sunday, and mentioning their collaborative novel "Felix Martyr," noting that he is going to send Moore a "revised chap[ter] I with blank interludes for you to fill up with brilliant & pointed dialogue." Discussing his work on what "will be positively the last number of The Critic." Admitting that he is having difficulty choosing "between the half-dozen new & equally charming photos of Mignon" [the child actress Minnie Terry], stating that he prefers the "doggy" ones. Lamenting that he is obliged to remain at the office for another five hours "without a novel -- & without ideas."
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