BIB_ID
293104
Accession number
MA 1625.121
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
1890 [Dec. 26].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 179.
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 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.
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
Lamenting their respective holidays, noting that [Lionel] Johnson's, too, sounds dismal. Mentioning that Dowson has left the Arts and Letters Club in favor of the Grosvenor, describing it as "rather too conventional," but with a library and "sumptuous" quarters. Pining for Moore, Johnson, and Poland, and mentioning that, despite his poor financial situation, he has sent Missie (Adelaide Foltinowicz) a copy of "the immortal 'Carrol,'" and has received "a pretty card from her." Lamenting that he has done no work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," but noting that he has been reading a great deal, and encouraging Moore to read an essay by Pater.
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