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Douglas to Reginald Ashley Caton,, 1926 July 9-1926 October 10

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 15, Folder: 3-7

Scope and Content

From the Collection:

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: 1926 July 9-1926 October 10

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Description

11 ALS 28 p. Various sizes. Concerns sales of the new preface to Frank Harris' Life of Oscar Wilde and publication of collected satires. With cancelled check from Fortune Press, and addressed and cancelled envelopes.

General note

Clark shelfmark D733L C366 1926 July 9 - Oct. 10

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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