Sonnet on Henry James [manuscript], 1916

Item — Volume: f MS.1969.005 vol. 1

Identifier: Series 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

This subseries includes manuscripts of speeches, plays, poems, and other literary works created by Oscar Wilde and his coterie. Many are in the author's hand. Virtually all of the titles given to the works have been supplied by later catalogers and scholars. They are arranged alphabetically by author or originator, and then by title. Further arrangement is by date.

Dates

Creation: 1916

Creator

From the Collection: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Organization)

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 38.36 Linear Feet (90 boxes plus bound volumes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General Physical Description note

Autograph manuscript of sonnet written by Beerbohm and Edmund Gosse on Henry James bound with the manuscript of The guerdon by Max Beerbohm. Also bound with a letter from Beerbohm to Mary Hunter that originally accompanied the story, and two watercolor and pencil drawings by Beerbohm. All of these materials were bound together by Mary Hunter. The letter is window mounted into the volume and one small drawing (of a woman playing the cello) was formerly pasted in, but is now loose; the story, the sonnet, and the larger drawing (a caricature of Beerbohm with the caption "M.B.'s distressing sense of his own unworthiness to be in the palace built by Zaehnsdorf at the behest of M.H.) are bound in -- the caricature a joke on the volume's binding by Zaehnsdorf.