Douglas to Murrough O'Brien,, 1939 October 13
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: 1939 October 13
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. Stationery headed: 1, St. Ann's Court, Nizells Avenue, Hove 2, Sussex. Mentions Vyvyan Beresford Holland and Alphonse James Albert Symons , and discusses the unpublished portion of De Profundis. With addressed stamped envelope.
Purchased at Sotheby's sale of 13 December 1990 (lot 178) with a typescript of the suppressed portion of De Profundis (accession MS.1991.003). Typescript is shelved as MS.1991.003 Box 1.
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository