Wilde to Leonard Charles Smithers,, 1897 October 19
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: 1897 October 19
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
Existence and Location of Copies note
Also available on microfilm: Wilde 30-93
Physical Description
ALS 4 p. Stationery headed: Hotel Royal des Estrangers, Naples. Photostat of letter in the University of Texas library. Concerns Ballad of Reading Gaol ; also contains references to Frank Harris, 1856-1931 and Ernest Christopher Dowson, 1867-1900 . Published in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, London, 1962, p. 663. With this: Photostat of original envelope, addressed, stamped and cancelled.
General note
Clark shelfmark W6721L S6642 1897 Oct. 19
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository