BIB_ID
293098
Accession number
MA 1625.120
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 Dec. 4].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 178.
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.
There is no evidence that "The Madness of Captain Max" was ever written.--Cf. Flower, p. 178, n. 3.
Written from "Church End / Woodford." Addressed to Caro Mio. 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.
There is no evidence that "The Madness of Captain Max" was ever written.--Cf. Flower, p. 178, n. 3.
Written from "Church End / Woodford." 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
Mentioning his intention to take Missie (Adelaide Foltinowicz) to Madame Tussaud's on Saturday and to dine at Poland that afternoon. Hoping to see Moore at Poland or at the Club that evening, and discussing his writing, mentioning their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," another nearly finished "Nouvelle" ("The Story of a Violin"), and a story "The Madness of Captain Max." Noting that if these three endeavors fail, Dowson intends to "give up writing, enter the Order of St Benedict, and devote [his] life to editing the Fathers." Asking Moore to join him, noting that "we should look so charming in the Benedictine habit: not to mention the liqueur!" Praising an essay by Pater. Lamenting that Missie is "so coy in the presence of 'company,'" wishing that Moore would "let her get to know" him, believing that then Moore "would worship her" as he does. Proposing Poland as an ideal place for an "Institution" consisting of Moore as well as "Swanton, Smith, Tweedie, Berridge, Lefroy (Queens), Sayle, Johnson, Money (New) Plarr, Hillier (Worcester) Walton (Keeble) W. Hall, Ghose (Ch Ch) Bouthers, Noblet (Paris)."
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