Mary Anderson to William Winter, 1883 Sept 2
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: 1883 Sept 2
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
Physical Description
5 pages. Letter to Winter about Anderson's London debut in the play Ingomar at the Lyceum Theatre. The letter mentions Wilde's Vera, for which Anderson was considered, but not cast: "OW’s Vera they say here is the worst failure ever in America. Willie Wilde said last night he was so sorry I had opened in such a bad play as Ingomar – I should like Oscar to write as good a one."
Purchase, Black Sun Books, 1994 (accession MS.1994.006).
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository