BIB_ID
293192
Accession number
MA 1625.100
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1890 June 21].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 15.9 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 155.
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 on Arts and Letters Club mourning stationery. Addressed to Dear Collaborator. 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 on Arts and Letters Club mourning stationery. Addressed to Dear Collaborator. 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
Enclosing (not present) a synopsis of "Masquerade" (their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks"), which represents "some 8 hours of solid manual labour." Hoping that Moore will emend and expand it and discussing some plot points.
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