"Justitia" to unknown person, about 1890
Scope and Content
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: about 1890
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
Physical Description
ALS 12 p. "Justitia" to "Sir." A long letter by a pseudonymous author written on embossed stationery from the Raquet Club, Liverpool, critiquing the 1885 Labouchere Amendment under which Wilde was tried. Originally laid in PR5823 D733o 1914
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository