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Wilde to Unknown person, about 1884

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 78, Folder: 7

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: about 1884

Creator

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

General

Autograph letter, addressed from 9 Charles St., Grosvenor Square. Letter to "Dear Sir" refusing an offer to come lecture at Stoke; Wilde notes that he would be able to deliver the proposed lecture in October instead. Dating per letter from Rupert Hart-Davis, 5 November 1976. Purchase, Kenneth Rendell, 1976 (accession MS.1976.037).

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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