Douglas to George Sylvester Viereck,, 1907 April 26

File — Box: ms Wilde 86, Folder: 14

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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: 1907 April 26

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

Additional Description

Physical Description

ALS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Academy, 20 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C.

General note

Includes typed transcription.

Before acquisition by the Clark, this letter was apparently laid in a bound manuscript of Richard LeGallienne's "On some recent editions of Oscar Wilde" (Clark call number MS.2000.011) as it is described in bookseller information laid into that volume, but was acquired separately. Another letter from Frank Harris to Viereck was also originally included with the bound manuscript, and was also purchased separately by the Clark (currently in msWilde Box 30/33). All three of these items were originally brought together by collector Francis Kettaneh, and were sold together by Lew David Feldman (House of El Dieff; item 25 in his 40th anniversary catalog. These items are all accompanied by typescript transcriptions written in the same italic font. This letter was purchased from Eric Chaim Kline in 2000 (accession MS.2000.010), but the acquisition dates of the Harris letter and LeGallienne manuscript are unknown.