BIB_ID
293128
Accession number
MA 1625.126
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Apr. 3].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 190.
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.
The "inferior" verses here referenced have not survived. A month after this letter (on 27 May), Dowson wrote his poem on the Carthusians.--Cf. Flower, p. 191, n. 6-7
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.
The "inferior" verses here referenced have not survived. A month after this letter (on 27 May), Dowson wrote his poem on the Carthusians.--Cf. Flower, p. 191, n. 6-7
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
Apologizing for his silence and for not seeing him during the week, mentioning that he has been ill, but hoping to see him on Monday. Noting that he has "done nought [sic] but compose a few inferior verses -- and meditate a good deal on 'Masquerade'" (i.e., their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks"). Describing a day spent at an "adorable" Carthusian monastery in Sussex.
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