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.

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Includes carbon copies of Millard outgoing correspondence in folder Wildeiana 24/11, which may also contains some typed files by Richard Butler Glaenzer. Folder Wildeiana 24/12 contains mainly transcriptions of Wilde's correspondence but also other transcribed documents, as well as clippings from auction and sales catalogues; these documents appear to be working files of Christopher Millard's.

Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This subseries includes biographical and historical material relating to Oscar Wilde and his coterie. Included are bills, petitions, public documents, and other miscellaneous historical and biographical resources. The items are arranged by the originator or person most concerned. Within these broad groups, the material is arranged chronologically.

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Purchase, G.F. Sims, 1960 (MS.1960.027)

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...

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...

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...

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Arranged alphabetically by Millard.

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...

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Discusses contemporary late-19th century attitude towards homosexuality, which mentions Wilde in the last paragraph. The text refers to Otton Weininger's Sex and Chararacter, published in English for the first time in 1906. (Purchase, Randall and Windle, 1976; accession MS.1976.035)