BIB_ID
293086
Accession number
MA 1625.118
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Oct. 26].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
"A Case of Conscience" was rejected by Morris and published in The Century Guild Hobby Horse in April, 1891.
Dated in Flower, p. 174.
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." Addressed to Vieux. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 174.
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." Addressed to 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
Asking for advice concerning an arrangement with Clement Cheese (the solicitors collecting Dowson's debt to Bacon, see MA 1625.115), and mentioning that Dowson waited for Moore at the Club the previous day, after he "had returned Missie (Adelaide Foltinowicz) to her parents." Describing his Friday evening, which concluded when he and Johnson "went out to a mass in the gray dawn." Mentioning his work on "A Case of Conscience," and hoping to work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks" once the story has been dispatched to Mowbray Morris, editor of Macmillan's Magazine.
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