Wilde to Ada Leverson,, 1894 April

Item — Box: See Clark shelfmark

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: 1894 April

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

ACS 2 p. Card headed: Albemarle Club, 13 Albemarle Street, W. [crossed out]. In Twelve Autograph Letters from Oscar Wilde to Mrs. Leverson, "The Sphinx". Published in Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, London, 1930, p. 53 [with omissions and variations]. With this: original addressed envelope.