BIB_ID
293042
Accession number
MA 1625.109
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Aug. 27].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Chapter 4 has a description of a restaurant, Brodonowski's, closely resembling Poland.
Dated in Flower, p. 161.
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 / Woodford." Addressed to Caro Arturo Mio. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 161.
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 / Woodford." Addressed to Caro Arturo Mio. 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 his work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," asking him to "emend Poland as much as [he] can." Mentioning that he has "just returned from actual Poland" and describing Missy's (Adelaide Foltinowicz) return (from hop picking in Kent), noting that "we all with one accord became joyous" and that he has "quite become one of the family." Wondering why "any one write[s] anything but books about children" and lamenting "quelle dommage that the world isnt [sic] composed entirely of little girls from 6-12."
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