Christopher Millard Collection of Oscar Wilde News Clipping Albums
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 56 volumes of press clipping albums compiled by Oscar Wilde bibliographer Christopher Sclater Millard between 1909 and 1927. The majority of clippings are largely related to Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (and his ongoing legal cases). Most clippings are from British local and national newspapers and were collection for Millard by professional news cutting companies.
Dates
- Creation: 1909-1926
Creator
- Millard, Christopher, 1872-1927 (Person)
Access to Collection
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Extent
56 bound volumes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Set of newspaper clipping albums compiled by Christopher Sclater Millard between 1909 and 1927, containing news articles and other clippings related to Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and the larger Wilde circle of colleagues and interests.
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Clark Library.
Provenance
Purchase, Seymour de Ricci at Dulau and Company, 1928 (accession MS.1928.002).
Dulau 218 (page 119) (A collection of original manuscripts, letters & books of Oscar Wilde, including his letters written to Robert Ross from Reading gaol and unpublished letters, poems & plays formerly in the possession of Robert Ross, C.S. Millard (Stuart Mason) and the younger son of Oscar Wilde, London: Dulau & Co., Ltd, [1928]).
Processing History
Before 2008, collection physically processed by Clark Library staff and some loose clippings removed to separate envelopes.
Collection processed and described by Elizabeth Roy in 2015; EAD finding aid by Rebecca Fenning Marschall in 2016.
Subject
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 (Person)
- Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord (Person)
Genre / Form
- Title
- Christopher Millard Collection of Oscar Wilde News Clipping Albums Wildeiana Clippings
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Description by Elizabeth Roy; EAD finding aid by Rebecca Fenning Marschall
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository