BIB_ID
292441
Accession number
MA 1625.61
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Sept. 8 [i.e., 12].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Misdating by Dowson corrected in Flower, p. 104.
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 B[ridge] D[ock] on mourning paper. Addressed to Chéri. Signed ED.
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 B[ridge] D[ock] on mourning paper. Addressed to Chéri. 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
Asking Moore why he did not join Dowson and friends on a night out, noting that "we consumed many Lagers & disputed concerning many things." Hoping to see Moore soon, noting that he will be at the Victoria that evening as Louis Bouthers will be returning to France. Complaining about the editor of The Critic, and prophesying its death, as well as his own. Quoting Swinburne "O subtle & sanguine Arturos," asking him to meet Dowson the following day.
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