Wilde to Unknown person, about 1881
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 1881
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, addressed from Tite Street, Chelsea. Letter to "Dear Sir," explaining that Wilde is sending an application and is unable to find his father's insurance policy, though he is able to give a description of where the insurance company was physically located. Receipt date of 16 March 1881 is written in red pencil at the head of the letter. Purchase, John Wilson, 1976 (accession MS.1976.039).
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository