BIB_ID
293176
Accession number
MA 1625.138
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 June 25].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
August 8 was the day fixed for the start of Dowson's holiday with Moore in Brittany.
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 "Church End." Addressed to Carissimo Mio. 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 "Church End." Addressed to Carissimo Mio. 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
Discussing his intention to travel (alone) to France the following day for ten days, wishing that it was August 8 and that he was traveling with Moore. Noting that his "adieux in Poland almost reduced Adelaide to tears," and that with her new toilette and coiffure she "looked precisely like a little child Marquise who had stepped out of a canvass of Watteau." Asking again for Moore's opinion of Frederick Wedmore's "Pastorals of France." With a postscript stating that Lionel Johnson was received in the Catholic Church, noting that "it is a great piece of courage: his 'first general confession' must have been extremely disagreeable."
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