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Wood to Wilde,, 1882 January 11

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 83, Folder: 14

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: 1882 January 11

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Description

ALS 2 leaves. Second leaf contains an impromptu poem on "aestheticism" by the writer.

General note

References: Finzi 2855; Dulau 58, XIV

Clark shelfmark W879L W6721 1882 Jan. 11

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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