Wilde to Unknown person, about 1893
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: about 1893
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
General
Autograph letter, on Albemarle Club stationery. The Albemarle address is crossed out and Wilde has addressed the letter from 16 Tite Street. Letter to "Dear Sir" appears to be written to a publisher (possibly an American one) and offers House of Pomegranates for their publication. Dating is based on an enclosed 1977 letter from Rupert Hart-Davis to William Conway at the Clark Library. Purchase, Zeitlin, 1977 (accession MS.1977.023).
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository