Scope and Contents From the Series: Reference materials collected throughout Fong's years of studying the life and work of Oscar Wilde - his poetry in particular. Individual folders had been generated each of Wilde's known poems. Most of these folders contain a mix of the following materials: a copy of the poem's textual apparatus, the copy-text, occasional correspondence between Fong and other Wilde scholars, contextual research materials, and commentaries from either Fong (and someitmes Beckson) regarding the poems. While...

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Index cards containing either lines from or titles of Wilde's poems. Undated, but likely from Fong's time as a PhD student.

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Index cards carrying notes on different versions of Wilde's poems, as well as call slips from the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Scope and Contents The collection contains a group of roughly ~115 folders created by Fong throughout the course of his research on Oscar Wilde's poetry. Folders may contain an assortment of the following: notes about the provenance of the poem and its variants, a copy of some version of the poem (generally, though not always the copy-text), some commentary from Fong and Beckson, occasional correspondence between Fong and different Wilde scholars, contextual information on Oscar Wilde’s poetry, and the poem’s...

Scope and Contents Includes some scans of unpublished Wilde poems in prose (short stories) of dubious authority - especially in reference to the works "Jezebel", "Simon of Cyrene", and "The Actress". The latter three poems were privately printed in a pamphlet titled Echoes along with a version of Wilde's "The Poet", but Fong and Beckson concluded that there was not enough evidence to support the claim that these three poems had been written by...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Reference materials collected throughout Fong's years of studying the life and work of Oscar Wilde - his poetry in particular. Individual folders had been generated each of Wilde's known poems. Most of these folders contain a mix of the following materials: a copy of the poem's textual apparatus, the copy-text, occasional correspondence between Fong and other Wilde scholars, contextual research materials, and commentaries from either Fong (and someitmes Beckson) regarding the poems. While...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Reference materials collected throughout Fong's years of studying the life and work of Oscar Wilde - his poetry in particular. Individual folders had been generated each of Wilde's known poems. Most of these folders contain a mix of the following materials: a copy of the poem's textual apparatus, the copy-text, occasional correspondence between Fong and other Wilde scholars, contextual research materials, and commentaries from either Fong (and someitmes Beckson) regarding the poems. While...

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Includes notes from Fong regarding the provenance and context of some of Wilde's poems, as well as some scans and written transcriptions of original MSS.

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Files contains both typed and handwritten notes regarding the provenance and history of specific Wilde poems, as well as the copy-text for a number of the poems and the listings of Wilde manuscripts in the collections of various institutions.

The first of the files contains Fong's prospectus for a critical edition.

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Folder contains an early, typed draft of Fong's commentary on Oscar Wilde's poetry as part of his PhD dissertation, including edits in his hand written in pen.