BIB_ID
292491
Accession number
MA 1625.73
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Nov. 29.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dowson and Moore's collaborative novel "Felix Martyr" was never completed.
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 Bassin du Pont, L'he (Limehouse). Addressed to Cher Alphonse. 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 Bassin du Pont, L'he (Limehouse). Addressed to Cher Alphonse. 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
Mentioning that he will be out of town, and will be unable to meet Moore after his visit to the theater. Stating that he has been "thinking of the R.O. (i.e., "Felix Martyr")" but that he has been working on other projects instead, which he hopes to submit to Murray's, English Illustrated, or Blackwood's. With a postscript noting that he has "been such a good boy this week," and that he has refrained from drinking alcohol, eating fig pastry, and going to the races.
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