BIB_ID
293224
Accession number
MA 1625.148
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1891 Mar. 3].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 226.
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 C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Caro. 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 C. Dowson & Son Bridge Dock stationery. Addressed to Caro. 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
Arranging to pick up his umbrella and £6.6 (probably for a German sweepstake, cf. Flower, p. 227, n. 1). Mentioning that a meeting of the Rhymers' Club is planned for that evening, but since it is to be hosted by John Todhunter, Dowson may not go. Mentioning that first edition of the Book of the Rhymers' Club "is now absolutely épuisé, which is charming." Wondering whether it will be reprinted "& if so whether it will mean any personal profit." Hoping that he and Moore finish their collaborative novel "A Comedy of Masks" by June, and discussing his plans for the coming days, including Saturday, when he plans to "go to the Cult of Adelka" (Adelaide Foltinowicz).
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