BIB_ID
293022
Accession number
MA 1625.101
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 June 25].
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. 156.
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 "The Cedars, / Ramsbury, / Hungerford" on mourning paper. Addressed to Chéri Collaborateur. 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 "The Cedars, / Ramsbury, / Hungerford" on mourning paper. Addressed to Chéri Collaborateur. 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
Mentioning that although Hungerford is charming, Dowson has "an acute attack of nostalgia" and pines for "the delights of Sherwood St." Discussing the work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," noting that he is having difficulty writing as he is "chiefly out of doors" and requires "an inspiration other than trout and strawberries." Mentioning that his "little Frauleinchen" (Adelaide Foltinowicz) was "quite too adorable" the last time he saw her and that he hopes to return to London on Monday.
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