BIB_ID
293204
Accession number
MA 1625.144
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Sept. 22].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 217.
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." Addressed to Mon Cher. 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." Addressed to Mon Cher. 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 difficultly in writing their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks," referencing his distraction by the Lucy Pearson scandal. Noting that there has been no marked change in his relationship with Adelaide Foltinowicz, that "her people are as kind & cordial as ever," but that he feels "there is a difference ... that will become more apparent daily."With a postscript praising Moore's work on "A Comedy of Masks," and mentioning that the Dowson family to Maida Hill.
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