Written from "Yacht: "Rover" -- Oulton Broad. Suffolk (?)". Addressed to Mon cher Algernon (i.e., Swinburne, the English poet). Signed The Reefer (i.e., midshipman).
Dated in Flower, p. 90.
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.
Regretting that "the novel ["Felix Martyr"] develops so far chiefly in my fertile brain: a little of it however is on paper." Describing his trip, noting that "Yarmouth has the very vilest stink of any city or sewer which I have yet met with -- and I have been to Marseille," but describing other towns more favorably. With a postscript dated the following day (Sunday), further discussing their collaborative novel.