BIB_ID
292921
Accession number
MA 1625.93
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Apr. 8].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 12.6 cm
Notes
Dated and localized in Flower, p. 146.
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.
Possibly written from Bridge Dock. Addressed to Caro Mio. Signed Fleur d'Ennui.
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.
Possibly written from Bridge Dock. Addressed to Caro Mio. Signed Fleur d'Ennui.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
Summary
Inviting Moore to the theater on Wednesday and asking him to dine on Thursday. Describing a visit to Poland, mentioning that "la chèr petite (Adelaide Foltinowicz) has been shut up with a cold," but that Dowson was allowed to sit with her while she had her dinner the evening before. Mentioning that her father shared "portraits of Adélaide in various periods of infancy," and that "it was quite a charming episode & cheered me mightily."
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