BIB_ID
293050
Accession number
MA 1625.111
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Sept. 7].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 164.
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.
The Whirlwind was an "eccentric, original and indiscreet" weekly, which ran for twenty-six numbers, June-December 1890.--Cf. Flower, p. 165, n. 3.
Written from "Alpha House / Wood St. / Bognor." Addressed to Mon bien 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.
The Whirlwind was an "eccentric, original and indiscreet" weekly, which ran for twenty-six numbers, June-December 1890.--Cf. Flower, p. 165, n. 3.
Written from "Alpha House / Wood St. / Bognor." Addressed to Mon bien 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
Discussing his work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," fearing that his writing is bad and mentioning that he is "dissatisfied with the half doz[en] or so of pages [he has] already written." Noting that he is "getting awfully sick of this place" and looks forward to returning to London. Mentioning that he has been reading "Mdlle de Mersac," "Mill on the Floss," and the first number of the "Whirlwind," which is "an amusing extravaganza."
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