BIB_ID
292910
Accession number
MA 1625.91
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Mar. 28].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 143.
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 / S. Woodford." Addressed to Mon 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 "Church End / S. Woodford." Addressed to Mon 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
Hoping to dine with Moore in the coming week, and describing his recent outings. Encouraging Moore to acquire The Universal Review (of 15 March) to read "The Kruetzer Sonata." Discussing Tolstoy's views on marriage, and encouraging him to read the article on Verlaine as well. Discussing Poland and describing his interactions with "La petite" (Adelaide Foltinowicz), noting that she keeps him company whenever he dines alone and that his mother would be "charmed" by her. Noting that although he is "not remarkably depressed to-night," he can "never really escape from a depressing theory." Further noting that "the value of contact with children is chiefly ... that it enables you at least for a time to consider with a sort of mellow melancholy what you would otherwise do with extreme bitterness & acrimony."
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