BIB_ID
293285
Accession number
MA 1625.162
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1896 Jan. 12].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.5 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 339.
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
Relating that he has been ill, and apologizing for the delay in his response to Moore's letter. Thanking him for a loan of £2, endeavoring to "liquidate the debt at the earliest possible moment." Discussing the controversy over an Aubrey Beardsley drawing for the cover of a prospectus (see MA 1625.160), criticizing Edgar Jepson's role. Intending to send his recent work on their collaborative novel, "Adrian Rome," to Moore in installments, and mentioning Verlaine's death.
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