BIB_ID
292745
Accession number
MA 1625.90
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1890 Mar. 14.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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 from "Bridge Dock / Limehouse." Addressed to Caro Mio. Signed ED.
Written from "Bridge Dock / Limehouse." Addressed to Caro Mio. 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
Proposing that they dine at the Arts and Letters Club the following day, noting that he will probably "Polanize" in the evening. Mentioning the recent purchase of a photograph of Mignon (the child actress Minnie Terry), noting that this photo (which brings his collection to 3 cabinet cards, 2 cartes de visite, and 1 plaque) is "singularly like Mdlle Adélaide" (Adelaide Foltinowicz). Referencing Lucas Malet's "Wages of Sin," and mentioning that Victor Plarr has submitted a critique of Boas' play "The Favourite of a King" to The Critic.
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