Wilde to Good Words [Editor],, 1878
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: 1878
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
MS 1 leaf. In maroon leather and buckram slip-case, 9-1/4 x 7-1/2 x 1/4 in. Original manuscript of a sonnet probably written in 1877. Published in Poems, with the variant title:...On hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel.
General note
References: Finzi 2481a
Clark shelfmark *W6721L G646 [1878?] Bound
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository