BIB_ID
293038
Accession number
MA 1625.108
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. 160.
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 "Church End." Addressed to Mon très 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 from "Church End." Addressed to Mon très 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 fearing that Dowson "shall not be able, to keep (canceled) write up to you." Noting "our ingénues are certainly our weakest creations," and discussing their difficulty in writing those characters.
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