Record ID:
293249
Accession number:
MA 1625.154
Credit:
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes:
Written from "Bridge Dock / Limehouse." Addressed to Carissimo. Signed Ernest Dowson.
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.
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."
Provenance:
Sale (Sotheby's, 20 December 1954, lot 205); gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin in 1954.
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