BIB_ID
292462
Accession number
MA 1625.66
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Oct. 21].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 111.
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, South Woodford, Essex. Addressed to Cher Vieux. Signed Edouard Armand Gustave de Polisson -- Demi Mort-Ivre.
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, South Woodford, Essex. Addressed to Cher Vieux. Signed Edouard Armand Gustave de Polisson -- Demi Mort-Ivre.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Hoping to see Moore soon, noting that their meeting on Saturday "was very sad," and stating that another meeting will "possibly prolong" Dowson's life. Describing a "delightful glimpse" of Mignon (Minnie Terry, the child actress) below Plarr's windows. Noting that he is reading "Le Rouge et Le Noir," several Balzacs and a Turgenev, but is "writing nothing -- not even roundels."
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