BIB_ID
293028
Accession number
MA 1625.103
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 July 1].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.9 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 157.
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 on Arts and Letters Club stationery. Addressed to Mon 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 on Arts and Letters Club stationery. Addressed to Mon 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
Praising Moore's work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," and noting his own difficulties in writing. Mentioning an evening spent with Lionel Johnson, "an extraordinary man who improves on acquaintance."
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