Beerbohm to Mary Hunter, 1916 February 5
Scope and Content
The overall Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection is comprised of correspondence, draft manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, drawings, newspaper clippings and other items that reflect the life of Oscar Wilde and his colleagues in the context of their contemporary literary and artistic world. This finding aid describes only the correspondence portion of the larger Wilde collection. Items described here include correspondence to and from Wilde, his wife Constance, his mother Lady Wilde, and friends and colleagues, inclunding (among many others) Lord Alfred Douglas, More Adey, Christopher Millard, Robert Baldwin Ross, Adela Schuster and Ada Leverson.
Dates
- Creation: 1916 February 5
Creator
- From the Collection: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Organization)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Description
ALS 2 leaves. Bound with the autograph manuscript of The guerdon by Max Beerbohm, a manuscript sonnet written by Beerbohm and Edmund Gosse on Henry James (with an explanation written by Beerbohm to Hunter at the top of the page), and two watercolor and pencil drawings by Beerbohm. All of these materials were bound together by Mary Hunter. The letter is window mounted into the volume and one small drawing (of a woman playing the cello) was formerly pasted in, but is now loose; the story, the sonnet, and the larger drawing (a caricature of Beerbohm with the caption "M.B.'s distressing sense of his own unworthiness to be in the palace built by Zaehnsdorf at the behest of M.H.) are bound in -- the caricature a joke on the volume's binding by Zaehnsdorf.
General note
Old Clark shelfmark B415M3 G929 1916 Bound
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository