BIB_ID
293291
Accession number
MA 1625.163
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1896 Feb. 20].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.1 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 342.
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 "Hotel Gloanec, / Pont-Aven, Finistère" on Villa Julia stationery. Addressed to 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 "Hotel Gloanec, / Pont-Aven, Finistère" on Villa Julia stationery. Addressed to 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
Describing Pont-Aven and its residents and visitors. Mentioning that his Verses is being published by Leonard Smithers, who was "very keen about them," and that Moore will receive a copy when it appears. Discussing his plans to stay in Pont-Aven for three to five months and to visit Paris for the summer. Noting, however, that he has "not the remotest intention of ever visiting London," and that his "original hatred of the English grows gradually to an almost insane pitch." Hoping that Moore will visit him in France. Asking about the English reception of Oscar Wilde's Salomè as performed at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, mentioning that he attended the performance with Aubrey Beardsley and that he "wrote a long account of the enthusiasm with which it was received to Mrs. Wilde." Musing that "it is astonishing how different the feeling about him is in Paris to what it is in London!"
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