BIB_ID
293120
Accession number
MA 1625.125
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Mar. 20].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 189.
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 "Bridge Dock, E." 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 "Bridge Dock, E." 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
Declining an invitation to the theater and inviting Moore to the Museum. Complaining that he has "passed the week, in a consuming ennui, tristesse, spleen, and nostalgia of everything." Mentioning that he has been writing verses "in the manner of the French 'symbolists': verses making for mere sound, & music, with just a suggestion of sense, or hardly that; a vague Verlainesque emotion." Mentioning poems by Victor Plarr and Lionel Johnson, and describing a mist coming down on the river.
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