Field to Richard Le Gallienne, 1892 July 12

Item — Volume: MS.1956.010

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: 1892 July 12

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 2 leaves. Mounted and bound in three quarters brown morocco with the binder's title: The "Beautiful Boy" Falls from Grace. Letter is preceded by a handwritten account of its background by Wilfred Partington , and by a typescript of the letter. It is followed by a photograph of the frontispiece by Robert Fowler , from Le Gallienne's The Book-Bills of Narcissus.