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Willy Pogany to Ada Leverson, 1907

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 51, Folder: 47

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

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Description

ALS 3 p. Stationery headed: 150 Queen's Road, Bayswater. Letter in French simply signed "Willy". Mentions the writer Colette, 1873-1954. With this: Calling card with "Willy" and the address: 16 rue Valentin Hauy. Cataloged under "unknown sender" until September 2012.

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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