BIB_ID
293113
Accession number
MA 1625.123
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Feb. 2].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 182.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
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 Grosvenor Club stationery. Addressed to Carissimo Mio. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dowson and Moore collaborated on "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" in 1889; it was sent to many publishers but accepted by none.
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 Grosvenor Club stationery. Addressed to Carissimo 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 that the manuscript of their collaborative novel "The Passion of Dr. Ludovicus" is now under consideration by the editor of People. Describing "a most queer assembly of 'Rhymers'" at Horne's on Thursday, noting that Walter Crane, "Dorian" Gray (i.e., John Gray), "the tedious Todhunter," Victor Plarr and Lionel Johnson read, and that "Oscar arrived late looking more like his Whistlerian name, in his voluminous dress clothes, than I have ever seen him." Mentioning that Johnson read Dowson's "Amor Umbratilis" for him, and briefly discussing contemporary literature. Mentioning that he took Missie (Adelaide Foltinowicz) to Hengler's on Saturday and observed her in a procession on Sunday.
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