BIB_ID
293074
Accession number
MA 1625.116
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Oct. 10].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 170.
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 / Essex." Addressed to Mon vieux. 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.
Written from "Church End / Woodford / Essex." Addressed to Mon vieux. 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
Describing an illness (possibly a toothache) which has caused his face to swell "to twice the size of a plum pudding." Noting that he is existing "entirely on liquids -- & at intervals the tusk rageth as per usual."
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