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Autograph letter signed : Bognor, England, to Arthur Moore, [1890 Sept. 11].

BIB_ID
293052
Accession number
MA 1625.112
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Sept. 11].
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. 165.
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 "Alpha House / Wood St. / Bognor." Addressed to Mon 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 apologizing for his own slowness in writing. Giving his travel plans to London, and hoping to dine with Moore at Poland the following day. Mentioning two letters from [Lionel] Johnson and complaining about Bognor, advising Moore "never while you have a fiole of laudanum or a razor to save you go to an English sea resort."