Dion Boucicault to Wilde
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: 1819, 1849-1957, 1962
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
Discussing Wilde's play Vera.
This letter is transcribed in Ian Small's Oscar Wilde Reevaluated and Josephine Guy's edition of Vera with a small mistranscription in the last sentence where "an" has been exchanged for the correct "its." (Sandra Leonard, July 2024)
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository