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Symons to Vyvyan Beresford Holland,, 1937 October 19

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 65

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: 1937 October 19

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Description

TLS 2 leaves. Stationery headed: The First Edition Club. 6 Little Russell Street, London, WC. 1. With this: ALS from Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, 1870-1945 to Symons, 18 Oct., 1937; copy of a letter from George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950 to Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, 1870-1945, 8 Oct., 1937; copy of a letter from Sir Edward Sullivan, bart., to George Charles Williamson, 18 Jan. 1918; AN from Holland to Symons, 20 Oct. 1937.

General note

References: Finzi 2133

Clark shelfmark S988L H737 1937 Oct. 19

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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