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Wilde to Unknown person, about 1894

 Item — Box: ms Wilde 78, Folder: 8

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 1894

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, stationery of New Travellers Club, Picadilly, W., addressed in Wilde's hand from 16 Tite Street. Letter to "Dear Sir" concerns outstanding debts related to Wilde's house rental at Goring-on-Thames in the summer and autumn of 1893; Wilde says he is enclosing a cheque for £13. Letter is undated, but bears a received stamp at the head dated 27 April 1894. Purchase, Michael Silverman, 1998 (accession MS.1998.007).

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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