BIB_ID
293193
Accession number
MA 1625.141
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Aug. 3].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 211.
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 Caro Mio. 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." Addressed to Caro 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 a meeting for the following day, and discussing their upcoming trip to France. Discussing Loti's "Le Livre de La Pitié et de la Mort," encouraging Moore to read it, but only after he has read at least six of his earlier books, for "without the rest of him it is unintelligible."
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