BIB_ID
293299
Accession number
MA 1625.165
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1896 Apr. 19].
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. 353.
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 / Finistére." 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 "Hotel Gloanec, / Pont-Aven / Finistére." 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
Referencing his translation work for Leonard Smithers, and hoping to be able to work on their collaborative novel "Adrian Rome" soon. Intending to stay in Pont-Aven and hoping that Moore will visit that summer. Relating that he was "much amused, and a trifle annoyed" to hear from Connell [O'Riordan] that, when he visited the Crown upon his return to England, the manager "greeted him with much empressement, and added in a mysterious undertone 'And Lord Alfred -- and Mr. Dowson, I hope you left them quite well, Sir!" Noting that Aubrey Beardsley is ill at Brussels and that Pont-Aven is a "lovely place."
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