BIB_ID
292387
Accession number
MA 1625.55
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 July 31.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 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.
The Critic moved their offices to rooms formerly leased by The Gentlemen (see MA 1625.54).
Written on stationery printed ""The Gentlemen" / A Cosmopolitan Journal," but with stationery heading canceled and "Bridge D[oc]k, Limehouse" written in the margin. Addressed to Mon chéri. Signed "Yrs de profundis ED."
The Critic moved their offices to rooms formerly leased by The Gentlemen (see MA 1625.54).
Written on stationery printed ""The Gentlemen" / A Cosmopolitan Journal," but with stationery heading canceled and "Bridge D[oc]k, Limehouse" written in the margin. Addressed to Mon chéri. Signed "Yrs de profundis 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
Relating the slow demise of The Critic, and discussing his own depression. Noting that he has "knocked off whiskey ... and curtail my smoke" but that it "makes no difference" and he still continues "to plumn [sic] the depths of depression."
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