BIB_ID
293037
Accession number
MA 1625.107
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Aug. 22].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 159.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
Michael Field was the pseudonym used jointly by Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper. Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St. Leger Harrison.
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 "Bridge D[oc]k / Limehouse. E." Addressed to Mon Cher Vieux. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
Michael Field was the pseudonym used jointly by Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper. Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St. Leger Harrison.
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 "Bridge D[oc]k / Limehouse. E." Addressed to Mon Cher Vieux. 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
Discussing work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," and describing an evening out with Lionel Johnson. Mentioning his review of Michael Field and noting that he has just read Malet's "Counsel of Perfection." Referencing his upcoming trip and describing his ennui. Noting that Adelaide is away (hop picking in Kent) until Wednesday, and that in the meantime he dines "desolately" at the Poland and listens to extracts from her letters. Mentioning their collaborative novel "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus," noting that he "can make no suggestion about" it.
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