BIB_ID
292459
Accession number
MA 1625.65
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Oct. 18.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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.
Written from C[hurch] End, South Woodford on mourning paper. Addressed to cher Algernon. Signed Alphonse-Adolfe.
Written from C[hurch] End, South Woodford on mourning paper. Addressed to cher Algernon. Signed Alphonse-Adolfe.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Heartily disparaging "Looking Backward" (by Edward Bellamy). Begging Moore to visit on Sunday, thanking him for the plaque (of Minnie Terry, see MA 1625.64), and mentioning mutual acquaintances. With a postscript mentioning his plans to read "Le Lyns dans la Vallée," by Balzac as well as "a very bad shocker, 'The Boy Princes,'" and mentioning the literary figures Macmurdo, Horne, Randall Davies and Rossetti's periodical "The Germ."
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