BIB_ID
293296
Accession number
MA 1625.164
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1896 Mar. 22].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 348.
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 "Chez Gloanec / Pont-Aven." 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 "Chez Gloanec / Pont-Aven." 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
Discussing his acquaintances in Pont-Aven, and enclosing (not present) his bill for the previous month from which Moore "will see how cheaply one may live here." Mentioning a story, "Comtesse Marie of the Angels," intended for publication in the Savoy, hoping that he has not submitted it too late. Mentioning his poor health and that he has heard from John Gray and Herbert Horne. Suggesting Moore submit his story to the Senate, which is "the best weekly review [Dowson] knows." Hoping to introduce Moore to Vincent O'Sullivan, an American "without any trace of Americanism." Relating that his "Damigella" (Adelaide Foltinowicz) has related that Poland has been sold and that she is "considerably bored," and noting that if Dowson were to return to London , it "would now be a place of shadows & unreality." Mentioning that Leonard Smithers and Aubrey Beardsley are now in Brussels and that the Savoy "is grown as much a Parisian organ as a Londonian."
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