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Mathews to Wilde,, 1892

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 41, Folder: 18

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: 1892

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Existence and Location of Copies note

Also available on microfilm: CLC 147

Physical Description

ALS 1 leaf. Copy of the original letters. With this: Prospectus of Oscar Wilde, Poems ; ANS from binder Leighton Hodge to Mathews; cover design printed on paper in red ink; sample of binding for the Poems, printed in gold on white cloth.

General note

References: Finzi 1479

Clark shelfmark M429L W6721 [1892?]

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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