BIB_ID
293277
Accession number
MA 1625.159
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1895 Dec. 11].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.8 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 328.
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 "214 Rue Saint Jacques / Paris." Addressed to Mon cher Vieux. 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 "214 Rue Saint Jacques / Paris." Addressed to Mon cher Vieux. 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 loneliness in Paris and thanking him for his letter, noting that he had begun "to fancy that everyone had abandoned [him]," and that his only regular communications from England come from Effingham House (Smithers' office) and Sherwood St. (the Foltinowicz's restaurant Poland). Mentioning that Connell (O'Riordan) is now living in the country with Noblet, and that Dowson receives "amusing, semi-despairing letters about the food which they give him & the discomforting economies which they practise." Mentioning a recent lunch engagement with Pierre Louÿs, and asking Moore to send a copy of their "A Comedy of Masks" to Lautrec, and to deduct the cost of the copy (as well as a copy sent to Mrs. Wilde) from their royalties. Describing the environs around Paris. Referencing work on their collaborative novel "Adrian Rome," noting that he "can work far better here than in London," and , mentioning that Smithers, who is coming to visit, will return to London with Dowson's recent work.
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