BIB_ID
293300
Accession number
MA 1625.166
Creator
Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Display Date
[1896 Apr. 25].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of H. Bradley Martin, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Dated in Flower, p. 360.
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." 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 / Finistère." 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 the postal orders, mentioning that he may have difficulty changing them and might have to ask Moore to send money orders instead. Mentioning that "a sort of demi-semi uncle" of Moore's is at Pont-Aven with his wife (Mr. and Mrs. Bollans), and that Dowson has enjoyed their company.
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