BIB_ID
293154
Accession number
MA 1625.131
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 May 8].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 196.
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 / Limehouse. E." 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 "Bridge Dock / Limehouse. E." 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
Lamenting that he did not see Moore the previous day and mentioning that he is engaged to attend the theater with his brother the following day. Encouraging Moore to read Frederick Wedmore's "Pastorals of France" and Lionel Johnson's "Way of Writing" (in the Anti-Jacobin). Mentioning that he is ill, but that it is not the Epidemic (of Russian influenza), and inquiring after Moore's health.
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