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A collection of holograph manuscripts and printed books by or relating to Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 52, Folder: 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: 1819, 1849-1957, 1962

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Description

TL 3 leaves. Typed list of the Marquess of Queensberry's collection. With this: ANS from Lord Queensberry's secretary to Dr. Lawrence Clark Powell, May 15, 1951.

General note

Clark shelfmark Q24Z C697 1951 May 15

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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