BIB_ID
293249
Accession number
MA 1625.154
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1893 mid-Aug.].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 285.
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 / Limehouse." Addressed to Carissimo. 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 / Limehouse." Addressed to Carissimo. 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
Complaining that the heat incommodes him, but noting that "the quantity of gin and ginger beer with which I wrestle against it incommodes me even more." Wishing to retire to Brittany with Moore, and to "have the wings of a dove and the constitution of an ostrich, and various other equally impossible things." Noting that "the emptiness of London appallinging."
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