BIB_ID
292520
Accession number
MA 1625.76
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Jan. 5].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.8 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 129.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none. Their collaborative novel "Felix Martyr" was never completed. James' "The Solution" was serialized in The New Review from December 1889 to February 1890; Hardy's "Candour..." was published in The New Review in January 1890.
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 Arts and Letters Club stationery. Addressed to Mon cher. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none. Their collaborative novel "Felix Martyr" was never completed. James' "The Solution" was serialized in The New Review from December 1889 to February 1890; Hardy's "Candour..." was published in The New Review in January 1890.
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 Arts and Letters Club stationery. Addressed to Mon cher. 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
Hoping to meet the following week and asking Moore to visit him at the Arts and Letters Club, noting that though it is rather dull, "one can slack here with some comfort." Asking where the manuscript of their collaborative novel "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" is, and noting that he is unable to write ("'Felix Martyr' nor nothing"). Mentioning the second installment of James' "The Solution" and Hardy's article "Candour in English Fiction."
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