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Autograph letter signed : Woodford, to Arthur Moore, [1890 June 8].

BIB_ID
292934
Accession number
MA 1625.97
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 June 8].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 151.
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.
This letter provides the first tentative synopsis of their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," published in 1893.
Written from "Church End." Addressed to Carissimo. 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
Outlining the plot for a collaborative novel. Referencing his work on "The Story of a Violin" (not completed until June 1891), and hoping to see Moore soon.