BIB_ID
293174
Accession number
MA 1625.137
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 June 11].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 8.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
A "Mabel" is also mentioned in the postscript of a letter dated 1 March 1889 (see MA 1625.16); she was likely a child actress.
Dated in Flower, p. 204.
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 "Grosvenor Club." Addressed to Carissimo. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 204.
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 "Grosvenor Club." 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
Sympathizing with Moore's "trying, laborious week," and hoping to see him when [his legal examinations] are finished. With a postscript mentioning he has heard from his "old, or rather young friend Mabel Vance."
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