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Wilde to Sir William Robert Wills Wilde,, 1875 June 16

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 78, Folder: 3

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: 1875 June 16

Creator

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 31-44

Physical Description

ALS 6 p. With this: four pages of original sketches by Wilde; also, original envelope, addressed, stamped and cancelled, and another envelope marked in Sir William's hand: "Oscar. Letters from Milan, Padua, Venice, Verona. June 26, 1875."

General note

References: Finzi 2810; Dulau 4

Clark shelfmark W6721L W6723 [1875] Jun. 16

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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