BIB_ID
293058
Accession number
MA 1625.114
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Sept. 19].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Arthur Galton was associated with The Century Guild Hobby Horse.
Dated in Flower, p. 168.
Dowson's Diary of a Successful Man was published in Macmillan's Magazine, February 1890.
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 / S. Woodford." Addressed to Caro Arturo Mio. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 168.
Dowson's Diary of a Successful Man was published in Macmillan's Magazine, February 1890.
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 / S. 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
Referencing work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks" and hoping to see Moore soon. Relating that he was with Lionel [Johnson] until 7 in the morning the previous day and looking forward to dining with Johnson, Moore, and Money. Mentioning that Galton knows Money and noting that The Century Guild Hobby Horse "is great in discovering unsuspected masculine beauties." Noting that he saw Missy (Adelaide Foltinowicz) that afternoon, and that he will now return to his work on "Masquerade" (i.e., A Comedy of Masks). With a postscript noting that Johnson has sent Dowson's "Diary" to Pater.
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