BIB_ID
293029
Accession number
MA 1625.104
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1890 July 8.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 12.2 x 7.4 cm
Notes
Moore was evidently engaged in amateur dramatics.--Cf. Flower, p. 157, n. 1.
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.
With stamp and postmark dated 8 July 1890.
Written from "Bridge D[oc]k." No salutation. Signed ED.
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.
With stamp and postmark dated 8 July 1890.
Written from "Bridge D[oc]k." No salutation. 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
Asking Moore to dine on Friday, and inquiring after the date of his début. With a postscript (cross written in pencil) asking Moore to work on chapter 4 of their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," as Dowson fears he must abandon it.
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