BIB_ID
293090
Accession number
MA 1625.119
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Nov. 25].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
"A Case of Conscience" was first published in The Century Guild Hobby Horse in April, 1891.
Dated in Flower, p. 176.
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 on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Caro Mio. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 176.
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 on C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Caro 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
Apologizing for missing Moore the previous day and discussing their work on the collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks." Mentioning unplanned meetings with Williams and Swanton, and noting that Dowson's story "A Case of Conscience" has "found favour in the sight of Hone, Image & Co, & will appear in the next number" (of The Century Guild Hobby Horse).
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