BIB_ID
292517
Accession number
MA 1625.75
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1889 Dec. 29].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 122.
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 Woodford. Addressed to Mon cher Vieux. 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 Woodford. Addressed to Mon cher Vieux. 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
Discussing his illness, noting that "la grippe has gripped me" and stating that he has been prostrate with the Russian influenza since Christmas. Mentioning that he has been reading "all the trash the Woodford [Circulating] Library contains," including "Goodbye Sweetheart," "Dust," by J. Hawthorne, a Gaboriau, and "Herr Paulus," and hoping to reread "L'Immortel" again.
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