BIB_ID
292427
Accession number
MA 1625.56
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Aug. 4].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 97.
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 Church End, Woodford. Addressed to My dear Moore. 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 Church End, Woodford. Addressed to My dear Moore. 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
Sending by the same post the first chapter of their collaborative novel "Felix Martyr," asking Moore to revise it as much as he can, as "it wants greatly." Mentioning that he dislikes Felix "extremely," and discussing characters and plot points. Discussing the poetry of the Brownings, mentioning "Blot on the Escutcheon" and "Aurora Leigh," and discussing generally poetry read by Englishmen, noting that "when the literature is so fatuous it's not surprising that the people make one vomit." Vehemently disparaging respectable, mediocre Englishmen, rhetorically upbraiding a Mr. Jones. Further noting that "cultured Hegelian optimists are not much better." Talking of giving up society entirely, and hoping to see Moore soon.
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