BIB_ID
293057
Accession number
MA 1625.113
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Sept. 16-17].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Amor Umbratilis is dated 16 September in Dowson's manuscript notebook (MA 1480), and appeared in The Century Guild Hobby Horse in October 1891.
Dated in Flower, p. 166.
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 Cher. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 166.
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 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
Referencing their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks" and giving a working copy (with minor revisions) of his as then unnamed poem "Amor Umbratilis," asking for Moore's criticisms and ideas for a title. Hoping to see Moore soon, and mentioning that their "'Masquerade' (i.e., A Comedy of Masks) so far is a superior production."
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