BIB_ID
292518
Accession number
MA 1625.74
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1889 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.2 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 Church End South Woodford on Xmas Eve. No addressed "From Ernest Christopherovitch the slack man to Arthur Moorevitch the Parkplace villain..." Signed Ernest Dowson.
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 on Xmas Eve. No addressed "From Ernest Christopherovitch the slack man to Arthur Moorevitch the Parkplace villain..." Signed Ernest Dowson.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Referencing a gambling venture (possibly proposed by Swanton), which Dowson has declined in favor of staying at Bridge Dock. Mentioning a visit to the theater and discussing plays, noting that "even bad melo[drama] doesn't cause me to vomit as it once did." Asking Moore to return to Babylon (i.e., London) so that they may dine at the Poland (mentioning "I dine there every night & little Mdlle de Poland (Adelaide Foltinowicz) is beginning to greet me with a smile"), go to the theater, dine at the Arts & Letters Club, and further develop their work on the collaborative novel "Felix Martyr." Lamenting Christmastime, fearing that he shall not escape depression, wondering why "haven't we done away with anniversaries," and asking "why do we have watches or clocks or hours at all?" Threatening to "swear off wine & women & weeds & late hours & confine myself to the writing of the r.o. ("Felix Martyr") & the cult of Minnie Terry."
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