BIB_ID
293153
Accession number
MA 1625.130
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 May 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. 195.
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 / S. Woodford." Addressed to Carissimo. 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 / S. Woodford." 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
Regretting that he has been unable to see Moore during the past week. Mentioning visits to the theater and praising Ibsen. Describing "a function of sorts" at Notre Dame de France, noting that he "could not espy my 'Beata Beatrix' (Adelaide Foltinowicz) amongst the veiled Enfants de Marie: but I presume she was there." Acknowledging that Moore "care[s] for none of these things" and hoping to have an occasion to win Moore over with Catholic doctrine. Describing a planned outing with Missie (Adelaide) to the Deutsch Exposition. Mentioning that her family has promised to have her photographed soon, and looking forward to pointing out to Moore "how curiously like she is to at least two photographs of Minnie (Terry)."
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