Egerton to John Lane,, 1895 May 5

Item — Box: ms Wilde 7

Staff Only

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: 1895 May 5

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 4 p. Written during Wilde's trials and contains Egerton's anger at the "hypocrites" who are unfairly treating him. She is angry that those who were his friends when his sexuality was unacknowledged have turned on him when it has become an open fact. She also says she guesses John Lane had to act as he did by withdrawing Wilde's books from his publication, but she is furious at the ramifications that it has had for Aubrey Beardsley, particularly in regard to his dismissal from the Yellow Book.