BIB_ID
292429
Accession number
MA 1625.57
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Aug. 5].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Dated and localized in Flower, p. 99.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none. Their 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 on mourning paper and addressed to Mon cher. Signed ED.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none. Their 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 on mourning paper and addressed to Mon cher. 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
Alluding to another rejection of the manuscript of their collaborative work "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" by an unnamed publisher, and hoping that Moore has "received the fragment of its successor" (their "Felix Martyr"). Emphatically damning the "whole race of publishers." Discussing submitting "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" to more publishers, prophesying again the death of The Critic, and hoping to see Moore soon.
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