BIB_ID
292484
Accession number
MA 1625.68
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Oct. 31.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.1 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 on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Chèri. Signed Adolf, Gustave de L'Assommoir.
Written on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Chèri. Signed Adolf, Gustave de L'Assommoir.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Thanking Moore for his chapter II (of their collaborative novel "Felix Martyr"), and sending chapter III of the same, warning Moore "don't let it startle you into a premature grave." Praising his work, but warning him that they "mustn't get slack." Asking Moore to join the Arts & Letters club, noting that Dowson has just submitted his application and that Arthur Severn is his sponsor. Halting his letter suddenly, stating "I am just getting rather drunk -- or sober -- I'm not sure which." With three postscripts, including one stating "I will treat your complaint as in the strictest confidence & the more easily as I have not yet grasped its precise nature -- but gather that it is venereal? Or is it -- no -- is it -- no -- not -- Crustacean!!!"
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