BIB_ID
293165
Accession number
MA 1625.132
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 May 10].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 16.5-17.8 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 197.
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 Mon bien cher. 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 Mon bien cher. 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
Describing an evening spent with Victor Plarr and Lionel Johnson, and mentioning that he has finally received the April number of The Century Guild Hobby Horse. Hoping to see Moore in the coming week, and referencing his difficulty in finishing "Story of a Violin." Hoping to work on their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," and suggesting that they submit it to Lionel Johnson or Hillier when it has been copied. Discussing Newman's "Two Essays on Miracles," praising them as "the finest English I have yet met with outside Pater." Discussing Catholicism and faith, noting "I am being driven to Rome in self defense."
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