BIB_ID
293281
Accession number
MA 1625.160
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1895 Dec. 13].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.2 cm
Notes
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.
Written from "214 Rue Saint - Jacques / Paris" on Restaurant Scossa stationery. 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" on Restaurant Scossa stationery. 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
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."
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