BIB_ID
293136
Accession number
MA 1625.128
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Apr. 22].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Adelaide Foltinowicz was born on 13 April 1878.
Dated in Flower, p. 192.
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 C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Carissimo! Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 192.
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 C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Carissimo! 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
Discussing plans to meet, noting "it seems real ages since I saw you: or anybody." Mentioning that "we celebrated the Natalia of "Missy" (Adelaide Foltinowicz), last week; the thirteenth," and that as Dowson "did not greatly care for the butterfly brooches" he "found a cadeau, less ornamental." Describing and approving of her "charming new toilette." With a postscript referencing their work on the collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," mentioning that Dowson hopes to "settle down at it" when he is finished with "The Story of a Violin."
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