BIB_ID
293170
Accession number
MA 1625.135
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 May 29].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 200.
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." 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." 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
Planning to meet Moore the following day at a performance of Hedda Gabler. Criticizing "for the first time" a piece by Lionel Johnson (on Pierre Loti in the Anti-Jacobin). Mentioning that he has finished a study of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Henry James, noting that he prefers it "to anything Hawthorne has done himself," but planning "another attempt on the 'Scarlet Letter.'" Mentioning that he has completed a set of verses on the Carthusians, which he hopes Horne will publish, and mentioning that he has been introduced to Arthur Symons.
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