BIB_ID
292917
Accession number
MA 1625.92
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Mar. 23 or 31].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 145.
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. Essex." Addressed to Mon bien Cher. 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. / S. Woodford. Essex." Addressed to Mon bien 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
Complaining about his health, and hoping to return to the docking business and Poland the following day. Relating his intention to visit Brighton during Easter weekend and giving an account of his recent reading activity. Praising Robert Browning and mentioning literary figures of the 18th century, noting that it "has a complacency of demeanour which is merely good breading."
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