Written from "214 Rue Saint - Jacques / Paris" on Restaurant Scossa stationery. Addressed to Mon cher Vieux. Signed Ernest Dowson.
Dated in Flower, p. 331.
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.
Thanking him for a copy of the Chronicle and discussing a controversy over an Aubrey Beardsley drawing for the cover of a prospectus. Referencing Dowson's negotiations to publish his Verses, asking Moore to convey to Edgar Jepson that Dowson wishes that he would cease interfering in his affairs. Mentioning that Leonard Smithers will deliver to Moore Dowson's recent work on their collaborative novel "Adrian Rome."