A C ollection of " OR I G INAL MANUSCRI PTS LETTERS Co BOOKS

O S C A R W I L D E

including his

LETTERS WR ITTEN TO ROBERT ROSS FROM READING GAOL

° UNPUBL ISHED LETTERS POEMS 63 PLAYS

formerly in the possession of

E S ILLA D S UA A ON O OSS C . S R B RT R . M R (T RT M )

THE YOUNGER SON OF OSCAR WILDE

C AB LES DULAU 6b” C OM PANY L IM ITED TE LEP HONE C HA USC RIP T RE G ENT LONDON 3 2 OLD BOND STREET LONDON W I 42 1 0

WE have submitted the letters in this catalogue for examination to Lord Alfred D L ouglas . ord Alfred raises no objection to their dispersal in View of their

- ff historical and self revealing interest, and considers that his consent is su i ciently indicative of the attitude he takes up towards the references to himself which they contain . Th e copyright in the unpublished material in this catalogue is strictly E reserved by the Estate of Oscar Wilde . We are indebted to the state for permission to make , under licence , the extensive quotations which appear herein .

I N T R O D U C T O R Y N O T E

No logical principle of arrangement has been found for the material in this l catalogue. It is hoped and be ieved that the copious index at the end will Th e compensate for the comparative chaos of the text . letters and figures in ’ brackets which follow some items give reference to Stuart Mason s Bibliography : B T M 1 0 . S . e. g . ( ) refers to the tenth item in the ibliography here is a list of hi these items at the end of the catalogue , as well as another list of items w ch

. L . . al r are not in the Bibliography References to W . Nos refer to W te ’ ' lome 1 S a No . 2 L edger s Bibliography of (see 7 in this catalogue) . A few items “ ” B T are described as boards with ibliography label . hese are the actual B copies which Millard used in preparing his ibliography , with the special index label which he had printed for the purpose . Items described as with Large book- plate or Small book- plate carry ’ - one or the other of lVIillard s book plates . A reproduction of the large book plate is given below .

B k - ooks oo S . M i a d ua M i d in all b plate of C. ll r (St rt as on) conta ne in his u - t catalog e des cribed as having the large book plate . V l l

C O N T E NT S

N E P a e 11 INTRODUCTORY OT , g vii ‘ P a e flLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS , g xi ‘ n o P a e flMSS . , , g I P a e 8 11 BOOKS BY WILDE , g 9 ‘ W IL DEA NA . fl , BOOKS ABOUT WILDE , ETC , P a e 1 11 INDEXES , g 35

L I S T O F I L L U S T R A T I O N S

’ A Wom an s Tra ed P a e . 2 A page of the MS of g y, g

Sen Art s t P a e A page of the MS . of y g 7

Th a e e . P 1 . MS of an unpublished poem , g 4

P a e 1 IV . A letter to Robert Ross , g 9

Pa e 2 V . A letter from Reading Gaol , g 9

B allad o Readin Gaol P a e A letter containing a stanza of the f g , g 3 7

i Pa e VII . An unpubl shed letter from Rome , g 73

Pa e VIII . Another unpublished letter from Rome , g 7 7

D h P a e 8 rawings by Wilde to illustrate a letter to his mot er , g 3

T - u r . S essed P ortion o D e P ro undis P a e 1 0 1 X itle page of the pp f f , g

T - D orian Gra Pa e 1 08 itle page of y , g

T - P oem s B 1 88 1 P a e 1 0 itle page of , oston , g 9

r The i Lam a . w r t S i P e XIII apper of p p , g I I I

- . T Ravenna Pa e 1 XIV itle page of , g I 3

T - A Wom an o N0 I m ortance Pa e 1 1 itle page of f p , g 7

’ E Pa e 1 2 XVI . pstein s monument , g 7

O S C A R W I L D E

C R I P T S A U T O G R A P H L E TT E RS M A N U S ,

FI R S T E D I T I O N S & , c .

A CON SIDERA BLE PORTION of the ORIGINAL MS . of an unfinished and entirely I ’ unpublished play , in Wilde s hand throughout , on 49 foolscap pages , ’ - - about one third in ink and two thirds in pencil , entitled A W O M A N S T R A G E D Y From time to time there have been reported discoveries of new and i unpubl shed plays or poems by Wilde , all of which have proved baseless i t on investigation . Since Messrs . Methuen publ shed their second collec ed

edition , only one Short poem has been discovered which is indisputably T the work of Wilde . his manuscript , coming as it does from a source

impossible of suspicion , is of the greatest possible importance , as it was x generally unknown that such a play e isted . While it is in the form of only l a rough draft , it is possible briefly to out ine the plot , from which it will appear that the form of the play bears only the faintest resemblance to ’ Wilde s usual plots . While it is probably true that if the work had been

finished it would have been more polished and studded with epigrams , the bare outline of it which emerges from this fragment is a society melo ’ ’ I t Lad Winderm ere s Fan drama . has this likeness to y , and also Wilde s Th e usual setting of a fashionable circle of people . characters are Gerald ’ L L M erto n L . u ovel , a poet Mrs ovel , his wife ord , a friend of Gerald s L - M rs . Fresh e and afterwards in love with Mrs . ovel , a society low comedy T character , and her friend , a foreign Countess . here is a reckless : e changing of names throughout thus G rald starts as Arthur , but that L M r o n Th e name is suddenly transferred to ord e t u . manuscript begins at L Act II . , when Mr . and Mrs . ovel are living in Venice and expecting r n an d a visit from L ord M e tou . In this act there are several epigrams

witticisms , of which a few specimens are L i [ OVEL] I have written very l ttle since my marriage . M E RTOUN [ ] When a poet has his ideal to pour out tea for him , his

occu patl on IS gone .

[He has] a lot of blue china . I hope he lives up to it .

An angel on earth nowadays would have to pay for his wings .

He had given Arthur a terrible black eye , or Arthur had given him , — ’ I . really don t remember , but I know they were great friends He either died of a broken heart or got a situation in the Civil Service . I really am not quite sure which , but I know he was very wretched . I (U s W (‘ J

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Fa s i i r . I . M o c m le pagef om the S Qf N . I . In Act III . , which is in pencil , the melodramatic plot is introduced . From this it appears that on their marriage Lovel gave his wife diamonds P worth Some time afterwards , when he was in debt in aris , she pledged the diamonds with a Bond Street jeweller for to pay

his debts , with the right to repurchase them at any time within two years T P f for his act Opens with the visit of a arisian legal o ficial , serving L notice on Mrs . ovel to produce the diamonds within six weeks . She

is in despair at the prospect of producing the money, and there is indication

that she seeks it from Lord M ertou n . In the margins of the manuscript are numerous thumbnail sketches

of heads , buildings , grotesques , etc . Most of the manuscript is very hastily

scribbled down , probably in the first flights of inspiration , and occasion ally it is diffi cult to decipher when Wilde drops into a sort of shorthand

of his own . It may be said without much fear of contradiction that the opportunity i i of acqu ring such a manuscript as this will never occur aga n . (See

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DE L B D Th e M AN N . s . 2 I A HUS A O R I G I N A L , written mostly in pencil and

contained in two exercise books , of an early , probably the first, draft of T B this play . here is also a draft in the ritish Museum which Stuart Mason 6 i B . i [ ibliog p . 43 ] bel eved to contain the earl est version of Act IV . He bases his belief on the ground that Mabel Chilton (s ic) is named Violet

f. 1 6 2 . up to , when her name is changed to Mabel In the present version she is called Violet throughout . Mason refers to this version as Another, 1 1 8 still more fragmentary dated june 9 , 93 In point of fact close examination of this MS . Shows that all the essential features of the play,

and most of its dialogue , including much that was not used , are present . T - here is a title page which is dated , as mentioned by Mason , and has the note B Th ” e . T osie present . Cottage , Goring here is a scenario of the whole play and , in addition , of some of the separate acts that for Act II . reads ? 0 c . L Should begin with visitors 5 tea , then enter ord G . and Sir — Robert exit ladies .

Scene 2 men . Scene Sir R . and his wife . L l ady C . A one .

Violet saves Situation . On one page an enthusiastic note on the inspiration to introduce the stealing of L ady Chiltern ’ s letter Excellent idea 2 0 A most important and interesting MS . £ 5 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING 3 E E T . o r . ARN S A C O L L E C T I O N M S N O T E S , mostly in pencil , written in an exercise book ; mostly aphorisms and short speeches for use in these

two plays . In most cases the notes have been crossed through when they I n not were incorporated the later MSS . , but a few of them do appear to 3 T R - . e have been used here are occasional notes , such as cast this B ” Mr . unbury always ill , and examples of rigid economy in words , as

when about half a page of MS . is later boiled down to its essence in the E — — T remark , ngland Caliban for nine months of the year artuffe for the other three £ 1 50

THE E T L T Th P 4 RIS OF HIS ORICA CRI ICISM . e O R I G I N A L M S . of arts ’ E i II . and III . of this essay, which was written for the Chancellor s ngl sh E P O 1 8 . Th e u n ssay rize at xford in 79 parts contained in this MS . were

discovered for many years , and , at the time when Messrs . Methuen began n publishing their first collected edition of the works , they were still u known Th e l to exist . first part , the MS . of which is in the famous Wil iam Andrews L Clark ibrary in America , was included at the end of the volume con ’ L r Ar r o d thu Savile s Crim e . taining , and the present MS was printed for the

M iscellanies 1 08 . Essa s and Lectures 1 0 first time in , 9 In y [ 9 9] the complete

text is printed in one volume for the first time . Th e MS . is written in two exercise books , on one side of the paper

only, but numerous additions , improvements and corrections are written on 2 00 the pages facing the MS . £ EN ARTY TY ’ l ’ S S THE T T D E . Rou t ed e s 5 ; OR , AR IS S R AM ( g Xmas

1 880 P Th e . Annual [ ] and oems , O R I G I N A L M S of the earliest Th e ff draft of this poem . draft di ers so considerably from the published

version that it is here printed in full , as far as it is decipherable . Some words are so hastily jotted down in Wilde ’ s own particular shorthand that 0 they are impossible to decipher . £5

Th e greatest interest of this , as of most manuscripts of the kind , is that

it gives an opportunity of seeing the artist actually at work , and of study

ing his manner of working . Some passages he works at continually, re n ff polishing and polishing, sometimes retur ing finally to his first e ort i and pr nting it in full ; other passages he alters completely , and others

t No . . again he abandons altogether . (See illus ration II , p ’ Th e . 2 8 2 MS begins at line 5 of p . of Methuen s first collected edition

of Poems . And yet— and yet My soul was full of leaden heaviness I had no joy for in Nature— the like that fabled worm that stings itself to anguish Gnawing my heart away I lay [and] watched the when the Steered purple - sailed into the East I heard Sweeter than ever stole from shepherd pipe in secret valley Arcadian , or where the to kiss the blue

O long desired , much waited Th e waves that laugh round and lo from the clear centre of the fiery orb Came one whose far outshone Michael or Gabriel Or any captain of the O much desired O long waited for D T ear Herald of glad tidings , hou art here Lured from the lofty seat of many a prayer To give me my desire which so long

Hath with undying flame burned in my heart, nor suffered me to rest ’ Immortal Glory , the world s conqueror let me die crownless— let one leaf once at least of thy imperial laurels bind my brow Ignoble else — once let the clarion note And trump of loud ambition speak my name and for the rest I care not— then to me in gentle voice the angel made reply O much desired O long waited for Dear Herald of glad tidings Thou art here to give me my desire , thy name is Glory Then the angel answered me poor right child ignorant of the true happiness , Nor knowing the true wisdom in the sweet confines of this garden close make garlands for thyself out of the whose crimson stained petals more b efi t Whose level meads and glades delectable invites for pleasure Th e wild bird that fills Th e silent dells with sudden melody Should be thy playmate— and Shall twine itself unbidden in thy hair gentle violet Bou rcicau lt Boucicault garland more fit for thee than the dread weight of Glory ’ s laurel wreath Thou wert made for health and love and laughter not waste thy youth in shooting arrows at the and one pale leaf Fell from the clusters on my brow And I leapt up and felt the pulse of Fame Th e sound of many nations praising me one

No answer made the angel but her face — dimmed with the mists of pity then methought That from mine eyes where ambitions torch Had set its latest and most fulgent flame Flashed forth two level beams of straitened light Beneath whose fires the laurelled crown Twisted and curled as when the S with ers the ripening corn and one pale leaf Dear God how barren was the clamorous praise

A bitter thorn was in the laurel leaf,

One fiery coloured moment of great life And then how barren was the nations praise How dull the trump of glory— for sharp thorns e were in the laurel leaf, whose tooth d barbs burned and bit deep till fire red flame seemed to feed full upon my brain and make Th e garden a bare desert— with wild hands I strove to tear them from my bleeding brow but all in vain Save for the round of thorns upon my brow

Dear God— a bitter thorn was in the leaf with wild (vain) hands and I strove to tear it from my bleeding brow Bu t all in vain for still the toothed barb burned and bit deep till fire and red flame seemed to feed full their upon my brain and make with vain hands the garden a bare desert and flashed from my forth two level beams fierce dog star or one laurel leaf fell on my brow burns in the torrid sky and withers to dusty ashes So fierce a light beat from Wherein ambition lit it ’ s

And from the one its clustered fell on my brow and I leapt up and knew fame— and heard far off th e sound of many nations praising me bit with sharp teeth I waked again— and with a bitter cry That brake the curtained Silence of the night I waked again — and viewed the saw the timorous dawn peer with grey face into my darkened room 6 P h M ERTATI E . LIB S T e S . SACRA FAM S [ oems , O R I G I N A L of a Th l very early draft of this poem . e theme is the chief ikeness between the Th draft and the finally printed version . e draft consists mostly of scraps i 1 0 and odd lines, and probably shows the poem in its earl est form . £ / Albeit my soul still frets for liberty And most I love that state Athenian . Where every man is Kinglike and no man

Is crowned above his fellows , yet I see L Spite of this modern fret of iberty , Better the anarchy which in a single day oer throws the mighty O for a draught of that Lethean spring Better the rule of One whom all obey l than anarchy and level ing down .

Written in pencil on both sides of a foolscap sheet . E TE LES L O T . P M S . 7 SI H U S [ oems , O R I G I N A L of an early draft of - f the first two thirds of this poem , with sundry e forts at an apparently unpublished poem rhyming to the sound of ine Th e draft of Silhouettes ff varies considerably from the published version , the second stanza di ering 1 0 almost entirely . £ / Th e ff n principal points in which the MS . di ers from the printed versio — L I . Th L Th e are ine First two words are e sky . ine 2 begins tired L . fi f l Th e . wind ine 4 ends the t u bay . Second stanza in the MS reads I see the dim boat on the strand Tomorrow some light - hearted boy Will leap aboard in careless joy 9 And go to seek some () other land . Th e attempts at lines ending in ine include L ove flaunts his tyrian stained Sign . Thy mouth is like a cup of wine

Thine eyes are like the half green half hazeline . T : i here is also a short list of suitable words palatine , crystall ne ,

hazeline , shine , shrine . Written in pencil on three foolscap pages . I LLE LI THEORETIKOS NTE CTUA S . P Th e 8 and AMOR [ oems , O R I G I N A L M S . of early drafts of these two poems written on both sides T of a foolscap sheet . hese Show considerable variations from the pub I o 1 lish ed text . £ / 0/

Th of Theoretikos ff e MS . di ers from the printed version in the following particulars L 2 . ine reads Seeing of wisdom , reverence and might L : Th ine 8 is written first in pencil For this vile market place . e T ff T last two words have later been altered in ink to ra ic gain . hey were ffi - finally printed as Tra c house . On the obverse of this Sheet is written

l No . 8 ff a version of the ines from to the end, which di ers considerably

- from both the full written and the printed versions .

Line 9 starts Honour and chivalry .

Line 1 3 starts They wound my calm . L 1 Th e ine 4 . word shall in pencil is altered in ink to the published version would At the bottom of the obverse are four different versions of odd couplets

and lines .

Th e . Th e differences in Amor Intellectualis are not so important . MS

is written in the first person Singular throughout , but printed in the first

L 6 M S . 1 1 person plural . ine does not appear in the , and it ends at line after the word Endymion D M S . GAR EN OF EROS . O R I G I N A L of a very early draft 9 i in . of one stanza the style of this poem Although not used, it is very Sim lar

in theme and style . Six lines beginning r Ou friends grow treacherous . but there remain ’ P Sordello s passion , and the ( honoured lie E L T Gray, ndymion , ordly amburlaine

i n S Written ink , longwise on a foolscap heet .

- P L The B urden o It s . G N . ORI I A MS of a three line fragment from f y [ oems, 1 88 1 £3/ i A moment more , the wak ng dove had cooed , Th e silver daughter of the silver sea With the fond gyves of clinging hands had wooed

Her leman for the hunting .

In the MS . the words in the line between with and wooed are

i . omitted , indicat ng that this is probably an early draft

THE D E P D T o 1 1 1 UCH SS OF A UA . w F O O L S C A P S H E E T S bearing ( two 2 - names of characters , and () a six line fragment of dialogue, both from

Th l 1 n . this play . e fragment is not inc uded the printed text 9 L THE N . 1 2 O G . RI I A MS of an early draft of a poem , apparently unpublished

Written in ink on one side of a foolscap sheet . With two small marginal

sketches . £5/ Moonlit plain O lovely Acheron I am grown weary (tired) of the garish sun And is their by this Lithian An d there is no water in thy well pale Lethe ’ s ni so tired , so passionate and so mecha cal

vexes my soul . T EE ENT HR MS . FRAGM S , two of unpublished poems, on three foolscap

sheets . £5 Th e first is a fragment of four lines with three palpable attempts to Th e forge the signature of Henry Irving at the foot of the sheet . second is Th e - three lines of a poem . third is a three line heading addressed from

Hotel Voltaire . E L l TH ORIGINA MS . of a fragment of an unpub ished poem . Written in

pencil on one side of a foolscap Sheet . the gurgling water leaped and fell (laughed)

- Under the water mill , Th e marsh - land and the meadow- land were bright with daffodil Th e white - smocked shepherd Th e white sheep on the hill Sweet John and Sweet William ’ Th e lily and the lady s smock . Th e paper on which this fragment is written has been much exposed i ff to the sun, mak ng it di icult to read the writing .

E L . TH ORIG INA MS . of a fragment of a poem which is apparently unpublished

Written in ink on a foolscap sheet . 767 They say the Cornish moon was ’ Of so much beauty that pale Dian s star Stooped for a moment from its silver car To listen to those sweet lips tremulous with all their broken music boisterous forgot to fume and fret where on their lovely net P TO LTON . Th e . MI [ oems , O R I G I N A L M S of an early draft of this

poem , in which the idea of the sonnet is first roughed out . Written in ink I o 1 0 on one side of two foolscap sheets . £ / / Milton I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white clifls and high embattled towers This mighty fiery coloured world of ours

is fallen into ashes dull and grey (play) , I O Wherein we waste our hours For all our pomp and pageantry of power We are but fit to delve the common clay Seeing this little isle stand I think some ancient Spirit has passed away Seeing this little isle on which we stand T E his ngland , the sea lion of the sea , Compassed with anarchy on every hand By demagogues is held in fee O we are born too late This age of clay From our white cliffs and by embattled mighty towers Seeing this little isle on which we stand E E E B K T D X RCIS OO used by Wilde at rinity College , ublin , with his auto — 8 . O . 1 graph scar F Wilde , and the date , Michaelmas 73 , on the first page Th e first part consists of a collection of Greek Proverbs collected from

the fragments of Comic Dramatists . Most of the proverbs are written in

Greek , but there are several attempts at construing and a vocabulary . T here are also several original Greek verses . T L here is some construing from atin a number of geometric drawings ,

- - numerous pencil and pen and ink sketches , a few mathematical problems , P 1 00 some Greek rose , and a few notes on logic . £

- E E E BOOK . u sed X RCIS by Wilde at the University , about one third full of E 8 notes on the thics of Aristotle . £ 5

TE . TWO MS . NO S presumably jotted down during a dinner or a lecture In i 2 2 indel ble pencil on a rough quarto Sheet . £ / / THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT of an unfinished fragment of an u npu b - lish ed 1 8 6 . poem , written in 7 and hall marked as genuine by Millard Th e handwriting is quite unlike that of later years, but is undoubtedly ’

. 1 0 . Wilde s A very early specimen . lines the white narcissus break beneath my feet And the low lying did screen Her blushing face beneath the golden sheen that amber asphodels did and crocus meet Fed by fostered by desire Fit emblem D P 1 EN ON . 2 Th e . YMI [ oems , O R I G I N A L M S of an early draft of this

poem . Written in ink on one side of a foolscap sheet , with a marginal 6 / sketch of a fat woman . £ silken its roof of of sapphire cloud is spun of fleecy cloud the ropes are silken light I I the moon hath spread her pavilion of silver and of amethyst Bu t where is young Endymion where are the lips that should be kissed In secret fear of the scaling sea She hides her face behind the mist Bu t where is young Endymion where kissed

l . Th e MS . concludes with a number of trial ines for the poem O L PT i RIGINA MANUSCRI of a fragment of unpubl shed poetry,

longwise on one side of a quarto sheet .

Topaz .

diaphanous .

Byzantine .

cinnamon . And on this turbid tremulous tide Th e shadowy barges rise and fall her neck i like th n stick of cinnamon .

Was coloured like the cinnamon . ORIGINAL MANUSCRI PT of two fragments of unpublished poetry written

longwise on one Side of a quarto sheet . Dusted with its stars the starry Sky Seems like a dark blue satin sheet Pierced through and through with gilded stabs and now and then the lampless cabs

crawl like black beetles (shard beetles) down the street . she has a belt (string) of amber beads

around her little boyish hips , Between her scarlet lacquer lips

Her teeth are seen like milk y seeds . ORIGINAL MANUSCRI PT of the first draft of two stanzas of unpublished

poetry, written longwise on one side of a quarto sheet .

He rose and took (seized) his polished crook , She hid her face in boyish (birdlike) laughter , He ran beside (raced along) the sedgy brook And she— alas Sh e followed after

She followed , and he ran before , Carelessly whistling to the wind , ’ Bu t e re he shut the sheep fold door

Th e crept in behind . 1 2 O N L N PT 2 RIGI A MA USCRI of an early draft of two poems, written longwise 5 on one side of a quarto sheet . On the other side of the sheet the last two T No . 2 . l lines of the previous poem , 4, are rewritten hese two ines are but e ’ re he closed the wattled door Th e gold - haired child crept in behind

There came (rose) a little undertune

of Singing from (in) the wattled fold , and from (through) its latticed cloud the moon L eaned down with naked arms of gold . She stole behind him where he lay All tossed and tired from the dance He turned his curly head away

t . In pret y, boyish (wilful) petulance

She said I loved you all the while , Though Colin is a clumsy clout He twirled his crook , and would not smile His red (cross) lips from their rosy (foolish , boyish) pout . N L N PT ORIGI A MA USCRI of the full poem in five stanzas, the draft of two 2 stanzas of which is included in No . 4, written on one side of a quarto

No . 1 . 1 . . . 2 sheet Unpublished (See illustration III , p 4 £ / O L N PT RIGINA MA USCRI of an unpublished poem in three stanzas ,

written longwise on a quarto sheet . £ 1 0/

v errnilion I love your mouth of ,

Your gilded breasts , your little (sunburnt) neck Which is as brown as cinnamon

With here and there a purple fleck .

) - I love your (the honey coloured hair , T hat ripples to your ivory feet (hips) . I love the tired listless air

With which you kiss my boyish lips . I love the wan derin g (little) hyaline Thin vein that on forehead glows I love your polished (pale pink) nails that seem (shine) Like petals stolen (pilfered) from a rose E AM RICAN TOUR . Fragment of the O R I G I N A L M A N U S C R I P T of a lecture ’

P . delivered in hiladelphia , in Wilde s holograph throughout One page

. T 4to Stating that the steel industry of oledo was as ar“tistically creative i s as the silk industry of Genoa , and pointing the moral that there nothing i in l fe too mean , in common things too trivial , to be ennobled by your

. n touch A quotation from Ruskin used i n The E nglish Renaissa ce. £5 5

Written in 1 88 1 . 1 3 I I I . Fa s imi e a e rom th M e S . 2 6. c l p g f q 0.

1 4

is not in the typescript . After the words as Ruskin says on page 3 0 1 there i s a short paragraph i n the typescript which 1 5 omitted in the printed “ ’ version . After the words with no pretence and with some beauty page 3 0 2 there i s about a page in the printed version which i s not i n the “ ” i Th e typescr pt . typescript ends with the words a joy to you for all time on page 3 04 £75/ ’ Th e t ypescript is very heavily corrected i n the author s hand through ff out , and shows considerable textual di erences from the printed version .

i n 1 8 1 88 2 . It IS bound boards , with a paper label on which the date

E EAD Th N AFT R R ING and AFTER BERNEVAL . e O R I G I A L T Y P E S C R I P T and the carbon copy of these letters used by Millard and by the executor of B P the Wilde estate in preparing the publication by the eaumont ress . Also the first draft of Ross ’ s preface (which was not used) heavily corrected by him , a second preface , by More Adey, which was not used , and the T . w . preface by Adey to the second volume o long A . L S . from More Adey ’ ’ to Wilde s younger son , another from Ross s brother to the same , and an ’ ’

A L . s B . . from Wilde s son to Millard referring to the prospect of eaumont s i The escri t o about letters publ shing a third volume of these letters . typ p f fifty

intended or this volume but never ublished zn an orm is included in this collection. f , p y f £2 5/ TE E D TE BE E L AF R R A ING and AF R RN VA . A M E R I C A N I S S U E . A com let e 1 0 p typescript of this important collection of 3 letters , including E also 62 letters which have never been published in any form in nglish . Some of these 62 letters have been published in a very strictly edited G M e erfeld i form in erman , translated by Max y , but the impossibil ty of printing them in full in any language makes it practically certain that w apart from the originals which are catalogued else here in this collection , Th i they will never be available in any form but this . e American publ sher was permitted to print 2 3 copies of the first 68 letters in this collection

(see No . and although his edition was rather less severely edited than ’ B E n eaumont s nglish one , very considerable omissio s were necessary even Th e there . chief interest , however , must necessarily centre on the half Th e of this typescript which has not been published . correspondence is

P N . from aris , Gland , Napoule , ice , Rome , etc , and the period covered is 1 8 8 1 00 from May 9 to November 9 , and includes the last letter sent by

Wilde , which he was too ill to write but which was dictated to a friend . Th e subjects dealt with in these letters may be ascertained by a reference to the transcript of parts of some of them in an other section of this Th e catalogue (No . typescript is marked throughout with con sid erab le notes by Millard , and the emendations necessary in pub

lishin . g them are marked , too , in blue , black , and red pencil I t would diflicu lt be to exaggerate the importance and interest of this collection , because among other things it tells quite clearly a story which has never ’ l been completely told elsewhere , the story of Wilde s real ife between his T B ’ release from prison and his death . hose who possess eaumont s two 1 6 volumes have merely the vaguest outline of a part of the story, and no clue

is supplied to them which would assist them to fill in this bare outline . ’ Th e few who own or have seen a copy of Reynolds edition are a little more

at home with this part of the tale , but no one who has not read the whole of these letters as they stand in this typescript is capable of form ing a full Th e and complete judgment of the position . letters are full in detail and n an d frank in stateme t , as they were all written to Robert Ross , a friend from whom Wilde had neither the wish nor the motive to conceal his true

attitude towards things , it is only in these letters that one can appreciate

What the position was and for what attitude to life he really stood . If it n be granted , and there seems no reason to doubt it , that he is here stati g

facts , this transcript is indispensable to the future biographer who will some 1 o day write the full story of his life . £ 5 /

Th Six A FTER READING . e O R I G I N A L H O L O G R A P H M A N U S C R I P T on 4to ’ P pages , very closely written , of Robert Ross s reface . Ross commenced to prepare these letters for publication in 1 9 1 1 and wrote this preface to

be used when the book was published . Various matters , including the 1 1 outbreak of the war in 9 4, prevented him from finishing the publication ,

and in consequence his preface was not used . It is therefore entirely unpublished . It is very heavily corrected and is full of interesting Side lights on Wilde ’ s character possible only from an intimate friend such as ’ Th e Ross . manuscript discusses the results of Wilde s downfall , refers to

various tributes to Wilde since his death by André Gide and others , and ’ attempts an estimate of Wilde s personal character . £5/

B E T N Th e R MON , AN A COMTESSE DE . O R I G I N A L H O L O G R A P H“ M A N U of S C R I P T , signed , three sonnets by her addressed to Robert Ross inspired L by his gift of ilies and golden iris reminiscent of his friend Oscar Wilde . 0 . . . . 1 1 . 1 With an A L S from the same May, 9 3 THE L T ’ E HAR O S HOUS . A D E C O R A T E D M A N U S C R I P T T R A N S C R I P T I O N L . m i Fantais ies D ecoratives by Walter edger Also a si lar transcript of , two T L ’ — he ad s P ictorial Chris tm as Num ber 1 88 . 1 0 0 6 . 1 0 poems in y , 7 9 4 / B B eautifully written and decorated in colour . oth presentations to lVIillard - with his small book plate .

N A N D N N LETTE A U IQUE , IMPORTANT I TENSELY INTERESTI G COLLECTION OF RS written by Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross while Wilde was in prison at B - Reading . ound in a quarto volume , three qtr . morocco extra by Z aeh nsd orf 2 , the letters being hinged on linen guards . £ ooo/

No . . 1 No . . (See illustration IV , p 9 , and V , p Th e letters are written on the prison notepaper , and most of them

have the initials which Show that they were passed by the prison censor ,

C . and the number 3 . 3 , showing that the letters were written in Cell 3 on - the third landing . In addition to the prison letters there is a one page P annou nc 4to letter from the Hotel Avondale , iccadilly , addressed to Ross ,

ing the fact that he is about to take action against L ord Q ueensberry . C I 7 l ff A so , written on o icial blue foolscap , with the government stamp , there is l T a ist of books which Wilde asked to be allowed to have in prison . here l ff are many curiosities in this ist , especially the notes of the prison o icial ’ and the refusal to allow Wilde certain books . For instance , Flaubert s S alamm bo La Tentati n e t A t o d S . n oine is permitted but is forbidden . Strind berg is passed but Ibsen is struck out . He is not allowed the Q uarterly ’ Review uo Vadis P T for April , and Sienkiewicz Q is also on the index . hree books by John Addington Symonds and Arthur Morrison ’ s Criminology ’ ff e Series are struck o . He is allowed a copy of his play Salom but not

reviews of it . Most tragically of all , his request for manuscript books ,

pencils , and foolscap paper is very heavily scored through , presumably as

being against prison rules . Among the authors and books for which he e P L asks are Merim e , Anatole France , ierre ouys , Montaigne , a French ’ B - E D t The ible , a French nglish ictionary (l) , some mys ical books , Yeats t Rose E i B Secre . E . . , an ngl sh ible , two novels by A W Mason, and translations ’ A of two of Calderon s plays . S a preface to the volume is a long note and ’ a manuscript index by Mr . Vyvyan Holland , Wilde s younger and only surviving son , from which we quote . Many of the letters from Oscar

Wilde were placed by Robert Ross into separate envelopes , on the backs Th e of which he wrote notes as to their origin , date , and contents . backs of these envelopes are preserved here and immediately precede the letters ” - Th e . from Oscar Wilde to which they refer . notes are self explanatory T Th e hen follows an index to the 2 5 items contained in the book . con tents are 1 Th e ) list of books asked for by Wilde described above . ’ ’ 2 ) Robert Ross s original note , I cannot find Q ueensberry s original ’

i . card , but the enclosed was Wilde s letter tell ng me of it He sent note by hand about and I went up that evening at I T D h . 1 . (3 ) e letter from the Hotel Avondale . p 4to earest B — B ’ obbie , Since I saw you something has happened osie s father has left a card at my club with hideous words on it— I don ’ t see anything now but — Th e a criminal prosecution m y whole life seems ruined by this man . tower of ivory is assailed by the foul thing — Ou the sand is my life spilt ’ I don t know what to do . If you could come here at please do so - to night . I mar your life by trespassing ever on your love and kindness . ” B - I have asked osie to come to morrow . Signed Oscar D A . L . (4) . S . from Wilde on the notepaper of Holloway Gaol ated

B . (not by Wilde) Addressed to More Adey and obbie . 4 pp 8v o B B E L . Will you tell the Sphinx , rnest everson , Mrs ernard eere r (Church Cottage , Ma ylebone Road) , how deeply touched I am by their ’ m NewT affection and kindness . Inform the com ittee of the ravellers Club and also of the Albemarle that I resign my membership (Piccadilly T D . and over Street) hey are kind in their way here , but I have no ” books , nothing to smoke and sleep very badly . Signed Oscar P Ask Bobbie to go to Tite Street and get a typewritten MS . art 1 8 HOTE L AV ONDA LE .

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IV . Fa s imi a e r e om the M . o 8 c l p g f S f No. 3 L a of my blank verse tragedy , also a black book containing Sainte ” Courtisane in bedroom .

D 1 1 . . . 0 8 6 2 (5) From Reading ated (not by Wilde) March , 9 pp

A . 4to . small piece has been cut out of this letter by the prison censor ” l Addressed to My dear Robbie , asking him to write to a so icitor about ’ his Wife s settlement on him . I feel that I have brought such unhappi ness on her and such wrong on my children that I have no right to go against her wishes in anything . She was gentle and good to me here P when she came to see me . I have full trust in her . lease have this done at once n — I , and thank my frie ds for their kindness feel I am acting rightly

in leaving this to my wife . P P lease write to Stuart Merrill in aris , or Robert Sherard , to say Salome how gratified I was at the performance of my play [ ] , and have my - é thanks conveyed to L u gne Po . It is something that at a time of disgrace and shame I Sh ould be still regarded as an artist I Wish I could feel more pleasure : but I seem dead to all emotion except those of anguish and d es air = h owev er L - Poé p , please let ugue know that I am sensible of the honour he has done me . He is a poet himself. I fear you will find it ff di icult to read this , but as I am not allowed writing materials I seem to — ff have forgotten how to write you must excuse me . I su er from headaches when I read my Greek and Roman poets . Write to me , hi — — please , in answer to t s and tell me about literature what new books ’ ’ etc . also about jones play and Forbes Robertson s management about n d P L . a any new tendency in the stage of aris or ondon Also , try see what '

L Baii er Salom e . emaitre , , and Sarcey , said of and give me a little resumé Please write to Henri Bauer and say I am touched at his writing nicely . It was sweet of you to come and see me you must come again next time— here I have the horror of death with the still greater horror of living and in silence and misery [here about four lines are cut out with scissors by the censor] but I won ’ t talk more of this— I always remember ”

ff . . you with deep a ection . Always your friend [signed] O W I wish somebody wd . get from Oakley Street my portmanteau fur - coat— clothes— and the books of my own writing I gave my dear mother — Ask Ernest in whose name the burial ground of my mother was taken . ” - Good bye . n Un 6 L P . () Note by Robert Ross . etter from Reading riso i . of publ shed I cannot find date this letter , but it is probably March or

8 6 . May , I 9

D . D . (7) From Reading . ated Saturday Addressed to ear Robbie “ — 2 . . pp 4to I cd . not collect my thoughts yesterday as I did not - expect you till to day . When you are good enough to come and see me , ? ” B will you always fix the day Anything sudden upsets me . egs Ross to stop the dedication of a volume of poems to him . I could not accept ”

Th . or allow such a dedication . e proposal is revolting and grotesque Asks Ross to collect certain letters of his and to seal them up . In case I die here you will destroy them , in case I survive I will destroy them 2 0 E T . myself. hey must not be in existence ven if I get out of this loathsome place I know that there is nothing for me but a life of a pariah , L e t of disgrace and penury and contempt . me know why Irving

L . n leaves yceum etc , what he is playi g what at each theatre who did Stevenson criticize severely in his letters anything that will for an hou r n take my thoughts away from the one revolting subject of my impriso ment . L ’ Y I am deeply touched by the ady of Wimbledon s kindness . ou

K d . . w are very good to come and see me ind regards to More , whom I s o like to see . Signed O . W D th e iscretion prevents fuller quotation of this letter , which is of greatest interest . It has never been published . ’

P artl ublishe i De Pro undis . Th e ront (8) Robert Ross s note . y p d n f f bus iness t o sheet of this letter , which dealt with matters , was forwarded ’ Humphreys and was not returned to me . I don t remember date , but it ’ ’ 6 Salome P is after March , 9 , for he refers to a performance of in aris at

that tim e.

of (9) From Reading . As indicated above , only the last two pages i Th e . 2 . . this letter are here pp fol o , very closely written handwrit ing in this and the later letters is much neater and more beautifully T s formed than in the two letters so far quoted . hese two previous letter

seem to have been dashed down in a feverish manner, which does not

allow the writer to form his words . Very often only the first and last

letters of a word are clearly formed , the rest being a scrawl which only

ffi t . the context allows one to decipher , and that only with great di cul y Th e later letters , on the contrary , have the appearance of having been

lingered over . n Could nothi g be done , in improving company and getting fees ? I would be quite ready to give for the time the complete acting ' ’ S alom e L n - Salom e own rights of to u g é Poe . (6) I brought out at my L ’ expense with the ibrairie de l Art Indépendant . So it is mine . I have had no accounts from them of any kind . I wonder would not a new T i edition be advisable as it is being played . his m ght be arranged for

and some fees or money got .

For myself, dear Robbie , I have little to say that can please you . Th e refusal to commute my sentence has been like a blow from a leaden n w . I o sword I am dazed with a dull sense of pain . had fed on hope and anguish grown hungry feeds her fill on m e as though Sh e had been starved

. T k of her proper appetite here are , however , inder elements in this evil prison air than were before : sympathies have been Shown to me and I n o longer feel entirely isolated from humane influences which was before a D source of terror and trouble to me , and I read ante and make excerpts and notes for the pleasure of using a pen and ink an d I am going to . take up the study of German . Indeed , this seems to be the proper place P . T I s w . for such a study here a thorn , ho ever , as bitter as that of St aul , ff is though di erent , that I must pluck out of my flesh in this letter . It caused by a message you wrote on a piece of paper for me to see . I feel 2 1 . that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow

in the dark) and take its place with other terrible things that gnaw me . T hought to those that sit alone and silent and in bonds , being no winged P living thing as lato feigned it , but a thing dead , breeding what is horrible ” T like a slime that shows monsters to the moon . [ hen follows the ground of complaint] and I believe that my letter was lent and shown to others Now with the part cut out by a pair of scissors . I do not like my letters shown about as curiosities it is most distasteful to me I write to you freely as one of the clearest friends I have or have ever had and with

a few exceptions the sympathy of others touches me , as far as its loss goes , i very little . No man of my posit on can fall into the mire of life without t d eal of t get ing a great , pi y from his inferiors and I know that when M plays last too long Spectators tire . y tragedy has lasted far too long its climax is over its end is mean and I am quite conscious of the fact that when the end does come I shall return an unwelcome visitant to a world that does not want me as one whose face is grey with long imprison

ment and crooked with pain . Horrible as are the dead when they rise

from their tombs , the living who come out from tombs are more horrible ” still . Following this are long and bitter passages apropos the way in which Ross has offended him . After reciting at some length in a strain of bitter invective , he goes on And so now I have in my letter plucked T n . ow the thorn out hat little scrawled line of yours rankled terribly . I think merely of your getting quite well again and writing at last the wonder ful story of the little restaurant with the strange dish of meat served to Th l . e the select c ients gilded Sphinx is , I suppose , wonderful as ever . And send from me all that in my thoughts and feelings is good and what ever of remembran ce and reverence she will accept to the Lady of Wimble

don , whose soul is a sanctuary to those who are wounded and a house of Do refuge for those in pain . not show this letter to others nor discuss T what I have written in your answer . ell me about that world of shadows ” I loved so much . Signed Oscar ’ T I 8 . r 1 0 . s t 1 a tl ( ) Robert Ross s note April , 9 7 his letter is p y D e P ro un . published in f dis . It gives directions about MS which Wilde was llowed a . N . not to send (Major elson , the Governor , will confirm this He

has , of course , retired from Reading . ) ’

I 1 . D I . . ( ) From Reading ated April , 9 7 4 pp foolscap , closely

T . written . his is a specially important letter It is with great regret that we have decided that its contents are so extremely intimate and personal i ff and l kely to wound the feelings of persons still living, if such private a airs i were exposed to publ c perusal , that we refrain from quoting more than - fli i nt . S u c e about one fourth of its contents is said , however , to indicate e that the manuscript about which he conveyed such definit instructions, w i D e P ro undis i and for which he sho ed such sol citousness , was f , wh ch he E et calls here by the title which he himself gave it , pistola in carcere vinculis It must have been particularly exasperating for Ross at the time to have all these instructions about a manuscript which the governor 2 2

- I assure you that the type writing machine , when played with

expression , is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister

or near relation . Indeed , many among those most devoted to domesticity ” prefer it . Then follow detailed instructions as to the way in which the manuscript is to be typ ed and to whom the typed copies should be

sent . He asks for one to be sent to himself. He also wants one copy of the better parts sent to the L ady of Wimbledon . If the copying is done at Hornton Street the lady type - writer might be fed through a lattice in l the door , ike the cardinals when they elect a pope , till she comes out on e is tolam the balcony and can say to the world , Habet mandus p For E L B indeed it is an ncyclical etter , and as the ulls of the Holy Father are ‘ named from their Opening words it may be spoken of as the Epistola : E l ’ P In Carcere t Vincu is . rison life makes one see people and things T i h s W . as they really are . hat y it turns one to stone It is the people i outside who are deceived by the illusions of a life in constant mot on , im they revolve with life and contribute to its unreality . We who are

mobile both see and know . I have cleansed my bosom of much perilous stuff ’ to borrow a phrase from the poet whom you and I once thought of rescuing from the Philistines . It is by utterance that we live . For nearly two years I had within me a growing burden of On bitterness , much of which I have now got rid of. the other side of - the prison wall there are some poor, black , soot smirched trees that are

just breaking out into buds of an almost shrill green . I know quite well ” Th e T . what they are going through . hey are finding expression letter ’ proceeds to“quarrel with Ross for disregarding Wilde s instructions about his wife . You thought that the thing to do was the clever thing , the L smart thing, the ingenious thing . You were under a mistake . ife is L not complex . We are complex . ife is Simple and the simple thing is w the right thing . Further discussion of the quarrel proceeds , hich Shows Wilde to be of the kind and considerate nature which was always a t tri “ E buted to him by those who kn ewhim best . ven had I any legal rights —and I have none— how much more charming to have privileges given to ff ” me by a ection than to extort them by threats . He goes on to discuss i t his conviction and adm ts its jus ice , and also to discuss the danger that

. l his friends have incurred , of his being sued for divorce A so I would take it as a great favour if More would write to the people who pawned or sold my fur coat since my imprisonment and ask them from me whether

they would be kind enough to state where it was sold or pawned , as I am i t anxious to trace it and if possible get it back . I have had for twelve years . It was all over America with me , it was at all my first nights , it I knows me perfectly and I really want it . . hope to see Frank Harris Th i on Saturday week or soon . e news of the copy ng of my letter will be

E . welcome when I hear from you . ver yours [signed] Oscar Wilde ’ 1 2 T is artl ( ) Robert Ross s note . April 6 his letter p y pub lish ed D e P ro D undis . D . P . in f Refers to MS . of enounces me for my share in purchasing the life interest for Offi cial Receiver etc ’ 2 4 D 6 . . . (1 3 ) From Reading . ated April 4 pp folio Addressed My Th e E n Route D . ear Robbie , names of the mystical books in fascinate me Tr y and get some of them for me when I go out , also try and get me a good Life of St . Francis of Assisi . He mentions with great feeling the kindness of his wife ’ s coming from Genoa to break to him the news of ’ n his mother s death . Stra gely enough , a large part of this letter is a t recapitulation , sometimes in almost iden ical words , of the previous letter , and discusses the prospect of divorce as almost certain . I must live in England if I am to be a dramatist again but it would be a bestial infamy to again send me to a prison for offences that in all civilized countries are questions of pathology and medical treatment . I am gradually getting to a state of mind when I think that everything that happens is for T the best . his may be philosophy, or a broken heart , or religion , or the dull apathy of despair , but whatever its origin the feeling is strong with '

To b e wron . me . tie my wife to me against her will would g She has a full right to her freedom . And not to be supported by her would be a pleasure to me . I have never had the chance of thanking you for the

T . books . hey were most welcome Not being allowed the magazines was ’ a blow , but Meredith s novel charmed me . What a sane artist in temper

He is quite right in his assertion of sanity as the essential in romance . Still , up to the present only the abnormal have found expression in life and ’ literature . Rossetti s letters are dreadful , obviously forgeries by his brother . ’ - I was interested , however , to see how my grand uncle s Melmoth and my mother ’ s Sidonia had been two of the books that fascinated his youth . As regards the conspiracy against him in later years , I believe it ’ Th e really existed and that the funds for it came out of Hake s bank . conduct of a thrush in Cheyne Walk seems to me most suspicious , though l ’ Wil iam Rossetti says , I could observe nothing in the thrush s song at all ’ ’ out of the common . Stevenson s letters most disappointing also . I see that romantic surroundings are the worst surroundings possible for a romantic writer . In Gower Street Stevenson could have written another Tr u ueta The Times ois M sq ires . In Samoa he wrote letters to about

r r n . Germans . I see also the traces of a te rible s t ai to lead a natural life To chop wood with any advantage to oneself or profit to others , one should not be able to describe the process . In point of fact , the natural life is the unconscious life . Stevenson merely extended the sphere of the artificial

Th . by taking to digging . e whole dreary book has given me a lesson If ’ I spent my future life reading Baudelaire in a cafe I should be leading a more natural life than if I took to hedgers ’ work or planted cacao in mud

E n Route . swamps . is most overrated . It is Sheer journalism It never Th e makes one hear a note of the music it describes . subject is delightful

- i s . but the style , of course , worthless , slip shod , flaccid It is worse French ’ Oh n h n n et . O et a d than s tries to be commonplace succeeds , Huysman ’ ’ tries not to be and is . Hardy s novel , pleasant , and Frederic s very L interesting in matter . ater on , there being hardly any novels in the prison library for the poor imprisoned fellows I live with I think of 2 5 n presenting the library with about a dozen good novels , Steve sons (none ’ Th e B A rrowl T here but lack ) , some of hackeray s (none here) , jane ‘ D umas - ere- like Austen (none here) and some good p books , by Stanley

Weyman , for instance , and any modern young man . You mentioned ’ ’ E Henley had a protege Also the Anthony Hope man . After aster you T might make out a list of about 1 4 and apply to let me have them . hey ’ D ’ would please the few who do not care about G oncou rt s journal . on t

forget I wd . pay myself for them . I have a horror myself of going out into a world without a single book of my own . I wonder would there be any of my friends who would give L T B me a few books , such as Cosmo ennox , Reggie urner , Gilbert urgess , i P Max and the l ke You know the sort of books I want , Flaubert , Steven ’ B n Dumas ere K son , audelaire , Maeterli ck , p , eats , Marlowe , Chatterton , D D Coleridge , Anatole France , Gautier , ante and all ante literature , Goethe and d [itt] o and so on . I wd . feel it a great compliment to have books

waiting for me . You can send me a long letter all about plays and

books but do write clearly , otherwise it looks as though you had T nothing to conceal . here is much that is horrid , I suppose , in this letter , but I had to blame you to yourself, not to others . F . Harris comes to see me on Saturday, I hope . Signed Yours , Oscar 1 D 1 (4) From Reading . ated April 3 Addressed to My

dear Robbie 8 pp . folio . I am sorry that the last visit was such a painful and unsatisfactory To one . begin with , I was wrong to have present he meant to be : cheery but I thought him trivial everything he said , including his remark that he supposed time wen t very fast I n prison (a singularly unimaginative w opinion and one Sho ing an entirely inartistic lack of sympathetic instinct) ,

annoyed me extremely . then your letter of Sunday , had , of course , greatly distressed me you and More had both assured me that there was enough money waiting for me to enable me to live comfortably and at ease for eighteen months or two years I now find that there is exactly £5 0 and that perforce out of this have to come the costs of two solicitors

who have already had long interviews with Mr . Hargrove and incurred "Th e " 0 much expense balance is for me My dear Robbie , if the £5

covers the law costs I shall be only too pleased . If there is any balance ’ P ’ remaining I don t want to know anything about it . ray don t offer it to

E i n h . me . ven acts of charity t ere Should be some sense of humour You have caused me the greatest pain and disappointment by foolishly telling

me a complete untruth . How much better for me had you said to me ,

Yes , you will be poor and there will be worse things than poverty . You t ’ have got to learn how to face pover y , simply , directly, and straight w Bu t w n for ardly . he a wretched man is in prison the people who are

outside either treat him as if he was dead and dispose of his effects , or treat him as if he was a lunatic and pretend to carry out his wishes and ’ u n don t , or regard him as an idiot to be humoured and tell him silly and

necessary lies , or look on him as a thing so low, so degraded , as to have 2 6 i no feelings at all , a thing whose entire l fe in its most intimate relations

is to be bandied about like a common shuttlecock in a vulgar game , l in which victory or failure are of really little interest , as it is not the ife of ’ the players that is at stake but only some one else s life . You did not tell me the truth . You and my friends did not carry out my directions , ? 0 0 1 and what is the result Instead of £2 a year I have £ 50 . Instead of ’ — gv rd of the interest which on the death of my wife s mother would amount to about £ 1 5 0 0 a year I have no more than a bare £ 1 5 0 to the end of my 0 e T 60 00 a i ce. days . My children will have £ or £7 a year p heir father T Bu t . will remain a pauper . that is not all hat is merely the common money side . My life is to be ruled after a pattern of respectability . I My friends are to be such as a respectable solicitor would approve of. owe this Robbie to our not tellin me the truth and not carr in out m ins tructions , , y g y g y

and the grotesque thing about it all is , that I now discover , when it is too late to do anything, that the entire proceedings have been done at m I y expense , that have had to pay for advice and opinions worthless and pernicious so that out of £ 1 50 given to More Adey ‘ ’ or m us e f y nothing now remains at all but , I suppose , about Don ’ t you see what a wonderful thing it would have been for me had you been able to hand me the £ 1 5 0 on my coming out on Wednesday ? how welcome such a sum would have been "Of what I incalculable value Now the whole thing, without my permission being - i asked , is spent in a stupid and ill advised attempt in mak ng discord , in promoting estrangement . A great deal more in this strain follows , recapitulating the stupidity and injustice of his friends . I have written bitterly about Frank Harris because he came down to make gorgeous offers of his cheque - book to any extent I required and then sent a verbal message to say he had changed his mind . In the whole of this law business my life has been gambled for and staked on the board a B tise Humaine with utter recklessness . Flaubert once made l e ’ incarnate in two retired solicitors or solicitor s clerks called Bouvard et

Pecu ch et . Th e Opinions of . my secret solicitor , if collected ’ would prove a serious rival toFlaubert s grotesques . For sheer crass ” stupidity they , if correctly reported, are perfectly astounding . He then proceeds to detail the incredibly stupid actions which were advised and allowed . tells Mr . Hargrove that a large sum of money is at my an d — O disposal that I am in no want of money at all . It is supposed sim li i a — sancta p c t s that this will overawe Mr . Hargrove and prevent his n Th biddi g against you e sole result is that Mr . Hargrove tells my wife that he has it on the authority of that I am goin g to be in no want

1 0 . of money , so that there is not the smallest necessity for increasing the £ 5 So my wife writes to me at Christmas and advises me to invest the money in an annuity so as to increase my income She naturally supposed that

000 . it was about £3 , something that one could buy an annuity with So

. 1 0 did I I find that the entire sum was £ 5 , of which everything except i - fi v e Th e about th rty shillings has to go in law expenses . other clever lie 2 7 is to pretend to Mr . Hargrove that you are not my agents but quite in of B dependent people , while assuring the Registrar ankruptcy that you are n really my agents . As for me , you tell me that you are acti g independently , e but I find it is with my money . More Adey really expected Mr . Hargrov to believe in the ridiculous comedy . I need hardly say that Mr . Hargrove was not taken in for a single moment . Nothing could ” Th e exceed the heroism with which you exposed me to danger . letter goes on to deplore in detail and seriatim all the misfortunes which have

been brought upon him as the result of acting against his advice . in In point of fact , Robbie , you had better realise that of all the ’ competent people on the face of God s earth in any matter requiring l wisdom , commonsense , straightforwardness , ordinary intel igence , is i undoubtedly the chief. I have written to him a letter about himself wh ch

t . I beg you will at once go and study . He is cultivated . He is sympathe ic He is kind . He is patient . He is gentle . He is affectionate . He is full of — s o— his charming emotional qualities . He is modest too much about intellectual attainments . I value his opinion of a work of art far more than he does himself. I think he should have made and still can make a. l mark in iterature , but in matters of business he is the most solemn donkey n that ever stepped . He has neither memory, nor u derstanding, nor r capacity to realise a situation or appreciate a point . His gravity of manne

. E . makes his entire folly mask as wisdom . veryone is taken in He is so serious in manner that one believes he can form an intellectual opinionw. Now I have realised this I feel it right , Robbie , that you should kno it . He is incapable , as I have written to him , of managing the domestic fl air a s . of a tomtit in a hedge for a single afternoon You are a dear , ff : a ectionate , nice , loving fellow but of course , in all matters requiring ’ business faculty , utterly foolish . I didn t expect advice from you . I merely expected the truth . Come when you like to this place near t w Havre . You shall be as welcome as a flower and attacked ill you kno ” ”

. atonem ent . . . yourself You have a heavy before you Signed Yours , O W A D 1 i . (5) From Reading . Undated . 2 pp . fol o ddressed to ear Robbie A long and important letter anticipating his release and giving

t N0 . . detai“led instructions as to preparations , etc . (See illustra ion V , p i I nowhear that Dieppe has again been decided on . I disl ke it as I am so well known there , but I can move on , I suppose . I believe

you are to be there . Very well , it will give me pleasure to see you , but it

is much better that should not be with us , as I know I could not restrain myself from discussing the terrible position in which I have been placed through his want of practical intelligence and legal knowledge . ou With you , while your initial error had fatal consequences , of course y ’ have [no] business capacity . I would not like you if you had , so I can t blame you . I hope abroad to talk about lovely things . We have been n D frie ds for many years . If at ieppe you can find a place about ten — — miles off by rail where we could go a little quiet place please do so . I am well known at all the Dieppe Hotels and of course my arrival will b e 2 8 ‘ o n “ J w e t a LJ-f a , Le a . 9 & 4 ; c o n a A f a‘ l s

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V F i i e a e om t M o o 8 I . . a s m r N . c l p g f he S . f 3 (5) D L . . telegraphed to ondon I see you , then , at ieppe Signed Yours, Oscar w hil r n i Pri n 1 6 C d e n so . ( ) From Warder Martin , hose story is related in D i D t ated Ask ng for the loan of money to pay his fare to ar ford , where he believes he can get employment . He was dismissed from Reading n Gaol for giving some biscuits to children imprisoned there . I e close a ’ few more of Mr . Wild s missives , moving about as I am I might unfortunately ” lose them I do not like to destroy them . 1 (7) A collection of odd notes , all of which were written to warders ’ T during Wilde s imprisonment . hey are written on odd , dirty scraps of ’ paper , backs of envelopes , etc . , and some have the warder s reply on

the back . D (a) Fragment written on the inside of an envelope . My ear ff Friend , What have I to write about except that if you had been an O icer

in Reading Prison a year ago my life would have been much happier . E i T veryone tells me I am look ng better and happier . hat is because I have a good friend who gives me the Chronicle and prom ises me ginger ” T t biscuits Signed O . W . here is a pencil note by Mar in at the

b . foot . () Another such fragment You must get me his address some day— h e is such a good fellow— of course I would not for worlds get such — Th e a friend as you are into any danger I quite understand your feelings .

- Chronicle is capital to day . You must get A to come out and clean on ” n — On Saturday morning a d I will give him my note then myself. the P c . back is a pencilled answer by Martin . () Still another fragment lease i find out for me the name of A . also the names of the ch ldren who are in for the rabbits and the amount of the fine . Can I pay this and get ? - P them out If so I will get them out to morrow . lease , dear friend , do

. T this for me I must get them out . hink what a thing for me it would

wd . be to be able to help three little children . I be delighted beyond words . If I can do this by paying the fine tell the children that they are to be released to - morrow by a friend and ask them to be happy and not ” to tell anyone . (d) I h0 pe to write about prison life and to try and

change it for others , but it is too terrible and ugly to make a work of art ff ” T of. I have su ered too much in it to write plays about it . his note is

written on the inside of an envelope addressed to the Governor of Reading . — (e) So sorry you had no key— Would like a long talk with you any more news (1 8) Application from Robert Ross to the Governor of Reading Gaol

to have his name placed on the list of those allowed to visit Wilde in prison . On the back is written an answer stating that the visit is to be allowed

h 6 . . 1 . 8v o . 1 8 t and Mr Sherard is to come with him . p May /9 1 A 0 5 (9) . to Robert Ross from the Governor of Reading telling h 1 m he will receive a visi ting order for a further visit in due course . He ” i des res me to say how pleased he will be to see you . 2 8 k 0 . . . . v o . ( ) A L S 4 pp From the Governor of Reading, than ing 30

to much of the gloom that follows . It includes a Sketch of his rooms , of B whic“h a facsimile is given by eaumont . E verybody is jealous of everyone else , except , of course , husband ” and wife . I think I Shall keep this last remark of mine for my play . i I am going to write a pol tical economy in my heavier moments . Th e first law I lay down i s : Wherever there exists a demand there 1 8 no ’ - . : supply I breakfast to morrow with the Stannards what a great , l passionate , splendid writer John Strange Winter is How ittle people ’ understan d her work B ootle s B aby 1 3 une oeuvre sym boliste— it i s really only P the style and the subject that are wrong . ray never speak lightly of B ’ B — ” ootle s ab . y indeed , pray never speak of it at all I never do . £ 1 00/

6 . . 8 o . . . . 2 2 v . 4 A R pp 4 p One name omitted from this letter . £5/

8v o . . . . . 2 . . 5 A R 7 4 pp small 4 pp Various names omitted from E D D a i . l th s letter Mentions rnest owson , Charles Conder , and Young . £ 1 0/

8 . 8v o . . 6 . . . 2 . 2 A R 9 pp small % pp A witty and amusing letter , his his discussing financial position and the prospect of having visitors .

1 0 . You are afraid of any investment over £3 . I O . It is merely the extra ten shillings that baffles you there is no one who would

stay with me but you as for your room , the charge will be nominally lots bou ie bain Frs . a night , but there will be of extras , such as g , , and hot water If any one does not take the extras , of course he is charged

more .

Bain 2 5 c .

Pas de bain 5 0 c . - - i arette r cha ue c . Cigarettes dans la chambre a couche 1 0 c . g g

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1 0 0 . : . Sphinxes pay per cent more than any one else they always E did . in Ancient gypt Architects , on the other hand , are taken at a reduction . I have Special terms for architects . A modern architect , ’

li hi . t ke modern arc tecture , doesn t pay he is as ex inct as the dado , T of which now only fossil remains are found . hey are usually o embedded I n the old Lincrusta Walton strata . £5 / P . . 8 o . 1 2 . . 7 . A R 3 2 . 4 pp . small v page and lines rinted in full

m . 6 . . . . . 8v o . 1 8 . A R 3 4 pp small page A name o itted

A R . P . . 8v o . 1 . 9 . . 3 7 . 4 pp small page rinted in full

A E l n 1 0 . utograph card , signed , not published in the ng ish editio , acknowledging the receipt of a cheque and giving i nstructi ons on vari ous

- . 1 2 i . i matters referring to a former fellow prisoner , etc l nes S gned

P . M . s . ublished in full in the American edition 3 2 - P . 1 . . . 8 . 1 1 . A . R 3 ostcard 4 lines One third of a page Refers to a visit of Rothenstein and to the awful fact that Ross has received three

E . letters from him on one morning, as the result of the nglish Sunday An amusing card . P P . . . . 1 2 . . . . A R 39 ostcard , Signed S M 7 lines 5 lines rinted in full .

P . . . . 1 . . . 0 . 3 A R 4 ostcard , signed S M I O lines 7 lines Mentions ’ P Roth enstein s visit . lease use postcards when you have no news they ”

P . are so private . rinted in full

P . . 1 0 . 8 P 1 . . . 1 . . 4 A R 4 ostcard , signed S M lines lines rinted in full .

Not E . 1 5 . published in either the nglish or the American editions ”

P . . 1 . . ostcard , signed S M 3 lines We print it here in full

T 1 1 8 B uesday, June 5 [ 9 7 , erneval] Dear Robbie

- You have never told me anything about the type writer, a re or my letter : pray let there be no further conspiracies . I feel pp h ensiv e . It is only by people writing to me the worst , that I can know the best . r D ? Also , could all the remainde of my money be transferred to ieppe

B . I thought y ou had it all . u t you say not Th e NewReview portrait of the Q ueen is wonderful . I am going E to hang it on the walls of the Chalet . very poet should gaze at the portrait of his Q ueen , all day long . E i Not . 1 6 . published in either the ngl sh or the American editions ”

P . . 1 0 . . ostcard , signed S M lines We print it here in full

1 8 1 8 Friday, June ( 9 7) Dear Robbie ’ Cheque arrived safe this morning . I don t know how to thank you and More for your wonderful kindness , and care of my life and interests . So I write on a postcard , as all expression is forbidden by P Th e the ostal Authorities . postcard is the only mode of silence left to us . ” - Will write to you to morrow . is not here , nor is he to come .

1 . . . 8 . 8v o . 1 i . 2 . 7 A R 4 pp small % pp . Names om tted throughout

P . i 2 2 . 4 , on the ninth line , after private information lines om tted Th e facteur comes at It is very annoying that he cannot wait to get my replies . Nothing in the world will induce him to wait except wine , and that he drains with such speed that a couple of ” 0 postcards is all that I can ever get off. £2 /

1 8 . . . . P . 1 P . . 1 2 0 . A R 44 ostcard , Signed S M lines lines rinted in full . 33 . . P 1 l 1 . . 1 . 9 A R 45 ostcard , signed S . M . ines 7 lines . One “ name omitted . £3/3l

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. . 6 . . 8v o . 1 . L 2 0 . 6 A R 4 4 pp small page ine , after letter , 4 P 1 lines omitted . ostscript , line , omitted . As is so frequently the case , T the whole point of this letter is destroyed by the omissions . his is the letter in which occurs the astonishing remark that the people in Berneval ’ still cry Vivent M ons ieur M elm oth et la Reine d Angleterre £ 1 2 / l Not B . P 2 1 . pub ished in eaumont ostcard , signed S . M . 9 lines .

We print it in full .

Monday . Dear Robbie ’ D Let on t mind about he is absurd . me know ? about More is he better I never hear from you , but says you i ? - have apologized Is th s true I intend to write to day, which ” accounts for the illegible scrawl I send you . E 1 . P 2 2 . . . . ntirely unpublished ostcard , signed S M 4 lines We

print in full .

1 1 8 B Wednesday . July 4 [ 9 7 , erneval]

’ s letter most satisfactory , except his communicating with which means of course a possible estrangement between myself and

is i s . To If he arbiter , he arbiter inform them of his decision , previous to i events contemplated or not contingent , seems like giving h mself away .

Your letters always arrive underpaid : I paid 50 c . yesterday : and Do 1 franc last week . buy a paper weight . As you are clearly £2 in

P O . 2 pocket by not calling at the . , you might send me a 5 Waterbury

watch . I have no clock or watch , and the sun is always hours in advance . ” I rely on the unreliable moon .

En i P . . 2 . . 3 t rely unpublished ostcard , signed S M We print in

B 1 [ erneval , July 9 , Dear Robbie I B What delightful news "I will expect you on August st . ring dear More , if he can come . If not , bring the architect of the moon . I

ou . have a lot of work on hand for y to do literary work , of course Where ” is my Waterbury I never know the time .

i . P 2 . . . . P 1 0 . 4 A R 47 ostcard , signed S . M . lines 5 l nes rinted

in full .

L 1 8 . . 2 . . . 8 o . 1 8 . v 5 A R 4 pp small page ine 3 , after good

1 8 . temp“ered lines omitted I wish you would be strong on this poin t— the thing should be t thrashed out of him . As for his coarse ingra itude in abusing you , to i i whom , as I have told him , I owe any possibility of a new and art st c career, 34 and indeed of life at all , I have no words in which to express my contempt for his lack of imaginative insight , and his dullness of sensitive nature it makes me quite furious— so pray write when next you do so quite calmly —and say that you will not allow any nonsense and that if he cannot ” understand you have no desire to hear again from him . £35/ Th e reference in this letter to the poem which is nearly finished is the B first mention in this correspondence of the allad of Reading Gaol . He says ” Th e poem is nearly finished . Some of the verses are awfully good .

P . 1 . . 8v o . 1 . 0 2 6 . A . R . 49 4 pp small page rinted in full £ / B P 2 7 . Unpublished in eaumont . ostcard Signed S . M . We print it here in full .

July 2 oth .

Just closed up my letter without this important request . Will you Times D ail Tele ra h kindly insert once in the , once in the y g p and three times M anches ter Guardian in the , the following L Mr . Jules Hammond , late of the Foreign egion serving in

T . l onkin , is earnestly requested to communicate with M Achi le h Tw 8 t N . o Fromentin , 4 Regiment , Avesnes , ord medals are waiting ’ for M . Jules Hammond at the Gendarmerie , Calais . ” You will do a great service to one of my best friends . ” P 8 0 . P 1 0 i . 2 . . . . . 1 2 . A R 5 ostcard , Signed S M lines l nes rinted in full . £3/

P . P 2 . . . 1 . . . 1 1 . 8 9 A R 5 ostcard , Signed S M lines lines rinted 1 0 in full . £2 7 P . P . . . 0 . . 2 . . 1 2 3 A R 5 ostcard , signed S M lines 9 lines rinted in full . Th e play referred to in this postcard is probably The Importance of Being E arnes t , which was afterwards published by Smithers .

1 P ...... 1 . 3 A R 53 4 pp small 8v o . page rinted in full B Mentions eardsley and Smithers .

. . . . 1 8v o . . P . 3 2 A R 54 page . 5 lines rinted in full

. E 8v o . . 3 5 Unpublished in the nglish edition . 4 pp . From Naples £5 0

D T 2 i st 1 8 . ated uesday, September , 9 7

A letter of the first importance , of which we can only quote a part , explaining the course of acti on on which Ross had strongly reprimanded him and excusing himself for acting against all advice . Setting aside the i ts i o interior life of the soul with pass on for self realisati n at all costs , the — world forced it on me . I could have lived all my life with you but — you have other claims on you claims you are too sweet a fellow to disregard . — gave me three days , and Rowland a sextette of suns but for the last month at Berneval I was so lonely that I was on the brink of 35 i — kill ng myself the world shuts its gateway against me . I , after three ’

P l . months struggle against a hideous , hi istine world , turned naturally n l Of course , I shall ofte be unhappy hope to get a ittle Villa or apart

w . ments some here , and I hope to do work I think I shall be able to do so so do let people know that [it was] my only hope of life or ” literary activity .

E . P N 6 . i 3 Unpublished in the nglish edit on ostcard from aples , signed S . M . — a lovely day going to Naples I am quite happy . Hope you got my letter of yesterday and that you will tell people what I asked — — ” you to tell them please write soon and tell me all the news . ' P lom e. A B . 1 . P . . . Sa 3 8 . 3 ostcard g lines 5 lines Referring to rinted in full with the exception of three words .

A B . 1 . L . 2 . 2 . 8v o . 1 , words 44 3 pp “ 3 pp ine 3 after income 5 L 6 L . omitted . ine 5 , after myself 3 words omitted ine , after ”

L 8 . protest 5 lines omitted . ine , after scandal , 7 lines omitted L L 1 ff 1 1 6 m . ine , after I do so lines o itted ine 7 , after su er 5 0 lines omitted . £3 / L A B . 1 . 0 . 1 . . 8 . 8v 49 3 pp 4 pp ine 3 , after the third word , L l 2 0 1 2 . lines omitted ine 5 , after myself 4 ines omitted £ /

A B . . . L . 8 o . . v 54 45 4 pp page ine 5 , after write again 8 I o 1 9 words omitted . £ / / 1

8 . 8v o . . A B . . 55 . 46. With the original envelope pp 5 page

After the fourth word in this letter four pages of MS . omitted in fact , ’ Th e merely a fragment of this letter is printed in Beaumont s edition .

unpublished portion is of the greatest interest and importance . £3 5/ li 6. A B . 8 . 8 o . 5 47 . pp v page Fifth ne from the end , after 6 T i m . unread pages of MS . o itted hese pages contain intimate deta ls ff i of his recent experiences , an account of his financial a airs and of a terr ble Th e and tragic disappointment he had suffered . most bitter — experience of a bitter life— it is a blow quite awful and paralysi ng but i t ” had to come . £3 5/ A ter B erneval Th e remainder of the letter printed on page 47 of f ,

commencing My new address is a postcard , which is the item next

below , No . 5 7 , in this collection . P A B . . . T 5 7 47 . here printed as part of the previous letter ostcard , P i n signed S . M . Giving his new address . 7 lines . rinted in full 3 2 2 lines in Beaumont . £ /

A B . . . . 8 . 8v o . 1 59 49 pp page At the end of second paragraph , T i i . after at any rate 3 pages of MS . om tted his letter refers to rev ews

B allad o Readin Gaol . of the f g , especially to Henley P . A B . 0 . T 60 . 5 elegram announcing the death of his wife rinted 2 2 in full . £ / l

6 A B . 1 . . L 1 . 8v o . 5 . 4 pp 3 page ine 3 , after to send them one

. The sentence is omitted Mentions dining with Henry Harland , editor of Y ll wB e o ook . 2 , and meeting Whistler £ I /I O/

6 A . B . . . 8v o . 1 . 2 . 5 2 8 pp 4 pp With the exception of the omission

. 2 of some names , this letter is printed in full £ 5/

A B . . . 8 . . 6 . v o 4 55 4 pp g p A pathetic and appealing letter ,

P . asking for money . rinted in full

A B . l 6 . . 6 . . 1 5 5 Unpub ished in the American edition 4 pp 8v o . i B alla o . d Readin page Ment oning a popular edition of the f g Gaol . With B ’ the exception of one name , printed in full on p . 5 7 in eaumont s edition .

A facsimile of the last page of this letter is given . £ 1 2 /

» A B . . 8 . 8 o . 1 . 66 . v 59 pp 4 pp Fourth line from the end , after at all 2 pp . of MS . omitted . £30 /

A B . 6 1 . 8 . . 6 . v o 7 . 4 pp gp At the end of the first paragraph , after we meet rarely one sentence is omitted

2 . 8v o Accompanying this letter is another , pp , unpublished , which ’

P 1 . . 8 we print in full It is addressed from aris , May 4, 9 D ear Sir , I should be much obliged ifyou would kindly pay my allowance

. I 1 Phillim ore as it comes due each quarter to Mr Robert Ross , of , Upper Gardens , W . His receipt will , in all cases be a full receipt for any claims of mine , and I beg you to accept it as such . I remain ,

Your obedient servant ,

(Signed) Oscar Wilde . h T e two letters . il 8 6 s ee lu snad on NO : 33 > 34) 3 7 > 5 ) 3 ' ( VI , p This group of letters deals for the most part with the publication of Ball Rea n i ad o di Gaol . the f g Using Ross as a lever to move Sm thers , Wilde i l r d scusses at length the prospects of the poem , financial as well as itera y .

He quotes specimen verses as he writes them , asks for advice in the matter of form and grammar , and defends himself for using criticised words and locutions . Altogether , this collection of letters forms a most interesting history of the progress and creation of what is universally admitted to be ’ Wilde s greatest contribution to English literature . It has in fact been styled by trustworthy critics the greatest ballad in the English language and this collection is second only in interest to the manuscript of the poem

E 1 0 . . 6 . 2 00 itself ighteen letters , comprising pp of manuscript £ /

8v o . 1 . 33 . A . R . 55 . 4 pp . page With the exception of one name , B this is printed in full by eaumont . B . . 6. 2 . . . 34 . A R 5 pp 4to page eaumont omits one paragraph of the manuscript .

- — Bu t I will write to you to morrow at length on many things . your — arrangement with is delightful pray thank him for me .

wishes to be remembered . Yours OSCAR I am writing in a café where there is no ink .

. 8v o . 69 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp We omit about one page of MS . ’ Hotel d Alsace Friday [May] 2 ot h [ 1 898] My Dear Robbie Th e idea of the rooms is too delightful— and I could i get admirable rooms for what you mention . Of course unfurn shed rooms — are much cheaper but then furnishing costs a lot . 0 I h pe the £ 1 0 for May will arrive soon . I have had to pay my washer

L . woman and my doctor and some money lent me . So ife goes on Vallette (of the M ercure) has ultimately arranged to bring out my rofi t poem in volume form at 2 francs . I fear my only profit will be the p able pleasure of looking at the daffodil paper cover— they never pay for — an translations of poems . I have written a poem in prose this morning on e— old but not written out up to this . Th e E homma e weather is detestable . dmond desires his g to be sent to you . Yours OSCAR i 0 . 1 6 . 8v o . 7 H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . pp We om t 8 2 . about 3 pp of MS . £ 5/ 2 Tuesday, May 4 D ear Robbie ,

- T 1 0 . hanks for yr . letter . I hope the £ will arrive to morrow ’ It will be a sunlit moment when it does . If it doesn t , I am afraid I shall be obliged to telegraph to you daily . As regards the rooms— the difficulty about taking furnished apart ments is this . If one has furnished apartmen ts one is entirely at the mercy of the ro rietaire— — p p who can ask one to leave , whenever he chooses and all houses in Paris where there are furnished rooms are a form of Hotel — other people live there an d might object to my living at the same address .

Th e ro rietaire w . p p d . of course find out my real name and ask me to go

T l . his would not be a question of my conduct , but of my persona ity

Furnished apartments would be impossible for me . I am undisturbed P as yet at my hotel , because it is a very poor and insanitary place . eople ’ won t stay there as there is no drainage .

Also , I am very anxious to be able always to breakfast in , and some in— times to dine otherwise work is impossible . In furnished apartments one is charged Hotel prices— and a furnished flat with a kitchen would cost about £80 a year at least . k If I had an unfurnished flat with a itchen , I could have a — woman to come in every morning to clean and cook and to return , if ’

Th . 6 o c . e required , at to cook some dinner saving is enormous Such breakfast as I take , a couple of eggs and a cutlet , costs very little if you buy the things yourself. Bu t the chief point is that if you take unfurnished rooms , you are — tlie concier e your own master . Your visitors go up directly to call on you g — i s not seen nor consulted no one can interfere . I have been several times

concier e. to see , and I have not yet seen the g At the present moment if the patron of the Hotel d ’ Alsace asked me to n leave , I would have to go at once . Ashton , as you k ow , was turned out — of his hotel by a comm iss ionaire de police because he was intoxicated h e was — in bed at the time , and asleep and I had to dress him and take him out ’ n Th e u e d ins truction of the hotel at at ight . jg whom I saw personally at the police station told me that the proprietor of furnished rooms could — o u t . turn any person he chose , at any time that is the French law In unfurnished rooms one can do as one chooses S o you see that for m e the only chance I have is to take unfurnished ’ — rooms . I don t take them for the purpose of riotous living lack of money, — to put it on the lowest grounds , entails sobriety but I do not want to be disturbed . To suggest I should have visitors of high social position is obvious Bu t I s . and the reason why I cannot have them obvious also , as I said , in unfurnished rooms I can live quietly and at peace . P lease seriously consider this point .

Also , my dear Robbie , do not listen to stories about my being expelled — — I from Paris they are childish . I live a very ordinary life go to cafes ’ ’ Po ss e s like u t where I meet artists and writers . I don t frequent places like the Cafe de la Paix— I dine in modest restaurants for 2 or 3 francs — — m y life is rather dull I cannot flaunt or dash about I have not got the — uartier Latin money nor the clothes . When I can I go to the Q under the — wing of a poet and talk about art .

I suppose is the author of the canard It is unkind of him . Ever yours OSCAR

Th e 1 . 8 . 8v o . 7 HERE P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . pp first o four pages and another later page of the letter are omitted here . £5 /

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2 2 8 . Wednesday , May 4 [ 9 My Dear Robbie I h0 pe that you were able to read my letter of — B l me yesterday e ieve , th at in furnished apartments I could not live d I w . be asked to go . I understand that you think I have people to tea every day but no one comes to see me . I am never in during the afternoon , except when I am confined to the house by a sharp attack of penury . - — I d I hope to go looking for rooms to morrow . w . like them near here if possible— but the vital thing is the sanitary question— it is a real horror in life to live in an insanitary house— especially now that summer k is coming on . So I think of loo ing in some of the streets close to the — near end of the Champs Elysees there are new and well - drained houses — of there . As regards the idea of pawning the furniture course that was — I — a joke f Smithers would give me £3 0 for the play I cd . buy quite 0 — an enough furniture . on £4 , is really splendidly gorgeous air of

wealth about the chairs . Goodbye , dear Robbie . Write soon Yours OSCA R

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May 1 898 My Dear Robbie A thousand thanks for the cheque . May I ask when the June £ 1 0 comes due ? Of course the I st of the month— otherwise I

will never be able to keep my accounts straight . i Of course nothing can be done about rooms t ll you decide , and have the collection for the sweet sinner of England in hand— but I still suspect

you of having a flat of some kind concealed about yr . person . My instinct

in such points is unerring . Yesterday I went to the Salon— as modern art had a efl ect chastening on and he seemed sad , we went afterwards to the Foire aux Invalides— i where Maurice won a knife , by fool shly throwing a ring over something — ’ is here ou Wednesday he created a horrible scene in Campbell s “ ’ A B a ui ’ Bar by bawling out s les jfs . and insulting and assaulting some — one whom he saw was a Jew the fight continued in the street , and — - - D h e tried to create an anti Semite , anti reyfusard demonstration suc — ceed ed and was ultimately felled to the ground by the Jew" I met him at Campbell ’ s by chance on the next day Campbell told him that the only reason he would consent to serve him was that him "T and I had shaken hands with his rather amused me , when I ’ s remember monstrous moralising about us, and how nobody should — u s - know looked quite dreadful all covered with cigar ash , stains of — h e . spilt whiskey, and mud was unshaven , and his face in a dreadful state

He had no money, and borrowed a franc from Yesterday he turned up again— and had to receive a rather insolent

lecture from Campbell , who told him he preferred Jews to drunkards in — so his bar . He was much depressed of course I gave him drinks and 42 T cigarettes and all that he wanted . o Show his gratitude he insisted on — — reciting the B allad of Reading Gaol at the top of his voice and assuring le lus rand m aitre de la literature moderne et le lus rand homme me that I was p g , p g du m onde— at the end he got very tedious— and lest I might love my poem — P — h e less than I wish to I went away oor really is quite insane , and unbearable , except to very old friends who bear much . He begged me to lunch with him and to bring Maurice— but I declined— feigning temporary good health as my excuse He has gone to the country — — to - day I hope he will get better years ago he was a very good and dear fellow ’ — I dined last night with Robert d Hu m i eres a very charming young ’ — k — h e Frenchman whom I first met , years ago , at Fran Schuster s had — asked a poet to meet me and I believe I was rather wonderful . I liked the review you sent me immensely— do you know the writer ? it is a very good appreciation Ever yours OSCAR

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T 1 . uesday, May 3 My Dear Robbie P I feel we are both premature . eople who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly, that it is impossible to count them accurately but the ff question of rooms is di erent . And I fear you will have great trouble in m — I ’ getting any pro ises am not very sanguine about it . I don t wish to Th ffi k . e be horrid , but I think you are a little un ind di culty I am

t . under is my name , my personali y I might be practically turned out of ’ furnished rooms at a moment s notice . In unfurnished I am my own B . u t master as I said all this is premature . If you get any serious promises , of course , you will let me know. P I n uartier Latin I saw a delightful Miracle lay on Sunday the Q , and T dined with a lot of the actors and four poets afterwards . hey were most vin ordinaire— nice and sympathetic , and we were all very gay on after all , the only proper intoxication is conversation— z last night Antoine sent me a box to see Les Tisserands— the play that was suppressed in Berlin - did . i s i n and , for a long time , here It socialistic subject matter , and I Th — not much care for it . e play was rather like a public meeting and T — Should be called the riumph of the Supers but , of course , I was glad to see it . I see that Max has become Dramatic Critic— and has begun by his valedictory address— h e is clearly entitled to his retiring pension by this i t me . With regard to the Ballad — I wrote to Smithers to suggest to him 43 that simple copyright would enable him to st0 p the sale of the French — edition if it Should be on sale . I should like you and some others to have copies— as literary curios— but I personally don ’ t want it sold in L ondon , as I get nothing out of it . It should be made as contraband as

Tauchnitz . ’ On Friday I dine with the editor of L E rm itage that artistic revue— and l Maeter inck has conveyed to me his desire to meet me . He is now in — London— but is anxious I should call on hisfi ancee— Georgette Leblanc an e’ astonishing woman , now singing Sappho at the Opéra Comique in Calv s l t place . I am told she is one of the most brilliant and strange persona i ies

in the world . Where do you Spend your summer is there any chance of your being in France— Conder has asked me to come and see him at a place called ‘ B onnieres— t ni be ween this and Rouen . He says he has found a fur shed 1 0 — - house for me , 5 francs for three months but I am afraid of the river air — I hope to go to the sea— Rivers are very bad for me— I need air like strong Wi ne I fear if I write any more that the weight of the ink will force you , or — S o me , to pay extra postage , dear Robbie , a thousand thanks for all your trouble for the perverse and impossible person Ever yours OSCAR T 8v o . 74 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 7 pp . here are o no serious omissions in the printed version below . £4 /

’ 1 8 Wednesday, June , 9 My Dear Robbie People who repent in sackcloth are dreary— but those D who repent in a suit by oré , and intend this suit for another , are worthy

of Paradise . — sweet . of It is most you , and the colour I would like is blue like the suit I had last year . P A rather painful fact , apparent to all , must now be disclosed . ray — mention it to no one but Dore and break it to him gently . I am dis tinctly stouter than I was when the last suit was made— I should say a — I an D good inch and a half c still button the old oré suit , but it is tight i ff b two . and the lower buttons drag I would l ke the same stu , if possi le — it is such good stuff and has lasted so well . is now inseparable from Maurice— they have gone again to

Nogen t . I made Maurice put a postscript into a rather Silly letter — inspired by — which he sent off to you to - day I think letters of that kind quite stupid an d witless— but has no real enjoyment of a joke unless he thinks there is a good chance of the other person being pain ed Th e E an d n . or annoyed . It is an e tirely English trait nglish type symbol - of a joke being the jug on the half opened door , or the distribution of

- orange peel on the pavement of a crowded thoroughfare . 44 I hope that the beautiful blue suit will be brought over by either you , m or Reggie . If not , let S ithers be told that the duty is his . I hear that the Custom House is exorbitant , and sends you papers on which they have thrown sand .

I find I have written .the beginning of a letter to a French poet on the — ab u let other side of this so cannot write more . F is the author of La — — Cris e an attempt at an anarchical poem a dull thing at best . Yours OSCAR

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P [ aris , D My ear Robbie , T hanks so much for cheque . I hope you replaced Oxford in the right way— it is sad to think I may have of disciples , but few or none in that sweet grey city that nur t u red me . Georgette Leblanc sent me seats last night for Sappho at the Opera Comique— she is one of the most wonderful artists I ever saw— the music ’ M assenet s meandered aimlessly about , as usually does , with endless false n alarms of a real melody, and incessa t posing of themes that are not — resolved into any development but her acting was really a marvel . was with me , and she looked at us with wonderful eyes , and on her calls gave us her bows to the exclusion of the rest of the crowded house . was seated next a Germ an who exhaled in strange gusts the most extraordinary odours— some of them racial— (it is smell that differentiates races) others connected with all kinds of trades from leather - dressing and — carpentry, to vitriol works and the keeping of an Italian warehouse others such as are found only among les m angeurs des choses immondes— others connected with gas , fuel , and candles in the last act he became like a petroleum lamp bore it very well indeed but had practically to sit in my pocket — Maurice unfortunately under the influence of his mother, who seems — his - of to be devoted to betting, spends all days at suburban race courses — — - course he always wins h e is a child of the Sun not a o ea i CcSp ei/oe as — you and I are but in spite of betting , and spotting the winner more wonderful than ever . ' — preys on his femm e- de- menage who now pays for everything including cigars— when he gives his orders she looks upon the wondering — sky with unreproachful stare she is so bewildered . She apparently thought that was going to pay for everything— of course she finds that — that is out of the question her psychological con dition is extraordinary . Yours

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Monday June 2 7 .

My Dear Robbie .

I did not write to you , because I was expecting you and the lovely suit of clothes over here . Reggie wrote to me a fortnight ago that you were coming over , and would no doubt call on me . I have been staying at Nogent — it is a lovely place— and we P — have had some charming days , but goes up to aris daily and only — h e returns for dinner . He goes and sits in his rooms says it is absurd to have rooms and not to sit in them . has behaved like a hypocritical ass to me— and finally wrote me a letter accusing tne of having written some attack on him that appeared

P . in some aris paper I need hardly say I never read the paper , or saw the attack , and that I never write anonymous attacks on people anywhere . I was so angry, I wrote him a very strong letter ’ He has got into a mess here through being Reinach s homme de — paille in his Dreyfus - syndicate campaign and I Should not wonder if he were expelled —His connection with C onyb eare— the author of the article ’ n etat- m a or i i sulting the y , for which Reinach has been dism ssed from the army— is well known— it was of course really written by He has — returned to Boulogne so as to be near the coast . To Th e comic thing about him is the moral attitude he takes up . be

P r . To either a uritan , a prig , or a p eacher is a bad thing be all three at once reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution . I see no difference between him and N They both got out of a — young man of unbusiness - like character but C was cunning enough to keep within the letter of the law- ~and his refusal to take any action when he was accused of cheatin g at cards— or conniving at the fraud — Shows how little he really cares about his character— He came down to see me about a fortnight ago— enquired affectionately into my financial position— actually wept floods of tears— begged me to let him pay the balance of my hotel bill— a request that I did not think it right to refuse and left me with violent protestations of devotion . A week later he wrote me a Nonconformist conscience letter in which he said that as he did not approve of my knowing he thought it would be morally wrong of him to help me i n any way except by advice . He also added that his wife disapproved of m y knowing So Tartuffe goes out of my life Of ’ course the fact of his being a Jew , on his father s side , explains everything . L I h0 pe on the day of St . Hugh of incoln there will be a general ’ — Do ? massacre but I don t know [when] the day occurs . you Ever yours Oscar

P has tumbled into the mud in aris as completely as he did in London .

N . It is a great emesis on him He treats me , his oldest and most faithful friend , with contempt because I am friends with and says that no one Should know such an infamous person as A fortnight later he has to bolt to Boulogne because from a little corner— a very little corner — a — Th e of his own life veil is raised gods are sometimes just , and always

humourous .

My dear Robbie , the thing was over and done with . I did not wish that the first time we met I should present him with a bill . It all occurred — when I had lots , too much indeed , of money and I did not feel up to n And raki g up his past . I thought I had got back my friend . , of course , l i le a . I had no g claim of any kind What I did , I did from k ndness , to n primarily , and in the second place to a woman whom I had know ’ A h n . d t e ee intimately We had all stayed together at the Hotel , at the

. D Hotel de Normandie , at the Hotel des eux Mondes , at many places y together . If the had often been my guests at dinner , I had , far more — I t . often , been heirs was not up to sending in my bill It was perhaps l — m i foo ish of me but , my dear boy , gentle anly feel ngs linger in the most

improbable places . It is one of the paradoxes of life . If I could have the feelings appropriate to my position— or rather my lack of position — it would be better for me but while natures alter , what is artificial is per

manent always . In the meanwhile I console myself by reading the terrible expose of ’ ’ le nomm e His ano - An lais e - ui banni de la s ociete An laise our ses p g jf, g p T f escro uerie . . q s etc etc It amuses me to see artu fe in the pillory . I

have the most terrible of all pleasures , the pleasure of the spectator ; a L pleasure without which Art would be dead , and ife would be humane . now It is a curious thing , dear little absurd Robbie , that you always think that I am in the wrong . It is a morbid reaction against your former , and more rational ,

estimate of me . Th e only thing that consoles me is that your moral attitude towards

yourself is even more severe than your moral attitude towards others . — P - Yours is the pathological tragedy of the hybrid the agan Catholic .

You exemplify the beauty and the uselessness of conscience .

When I read your, often bitter, censures of me , and your stern lectures , I think of your censures of yourself— of your awful curtain - lectures delivered alon e— listened to in silence— unanswerable merely because they are not answered— Judge and prisoner the same person— yourself your own

gaoler . ? Why not sometimes think that I may be in the right Why , at once , ? take the side of le triste individu I often wonder what would have

i . happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ , there had been a Christ an Dal As regards Young I have written , or rather am going to write to him . It is a long history , but I think when you know the circumstances that you will have a different view . In any case has nothing to do 48 with the matter . All he did was to write some lovely lyrics , for nothing I Dal ff — need hardly say . Young at first o ered to give me a house to have it built for me at Berneval so that I should have a home— it was to cost 7 00 — (with a freehold of the land this offer I declined— I thought it a piece of generous but Q uixotic enthusiasm— I hardly knew him at the time

I did not think it right to accept such an offer . Then he begged me to write him a libretto . I made out a libretto

i . that enchanted him . For two months he was at me to prom se to do it l I told him that I did not , could not know if I could continue my iterary work . He laughed at the idea . His wife , his friends urged me to accept his offer . I was asked to name a price for a libretto .

1 0 0 0 . I asked £ , and £5 on production Th e G I could hardly have asked less . lowest literary hack in rub Street would not write the libretto of an original classical Opera for less i I asked little , because I knew he was simply anx ous to show his confidence — h in my future by giving me a start e wanted to help me . I had refused the gift of a house at £7 00 . After three months I did accept what I knew in my heart was meant half as a gift , half as an encouragement . He told I me to take my own time about it . He said that all he wanted was that should know that he believed in me etc . etc . ’ — n Well I have not done it yet . I may never do it . I don t thi k I shall ever write again . I told him all that . Of course it would have been more prudent for me to have secured the house is a good — — stroke of business is it not but some way I did not like to do it . I could not have done it— it would have been wiser if I had— but I should have rather despised myself— Ultimately I accepted a commission— and fi x of— I being asked to my own terms , fixed the lowest I could think knew at that time — of it was all , , meant simply as a means of being kind to me helping me without hum iliating me— If now I am accused of getting money from Young under false pretences it Shows me that one Should P T never accept any act of kindness . eople regret their good actions . hat is the point to which the moral sense ultimately arrives . In any case , in this matter I have done nothing that could be brought up against me , and

Young should set the matter right at once if such a rumour is current . ? Your post card has just been handed to me here . Who is Steele is he the painter Or has he a profile In any case I must thank him . Bu t ff there are di erent modes of showing gratitude .

Frank Harris was most hospitable and nice to me here . I dined with him every night— except one night when I dined with Maeterlinck — — and Georgette Leblanc the prima - donna of the Opera - Comique a woman very like Sarah Bernhardt - They have a lovely little house — B B — near the ois de oulogne all white walls , and green furniture , and B - D urne Jones photographs heaps of books , and utch brass candle — f . bon arcon o sticks , and copper things He is g course he has quite — given up art . He only thinks of making life sane and healthy and freeing the soul from the trammels of culture . Art seems to him now a malady, 49 P M alein and the rincess e an absurdity of his youth . He rests his h 0 pe of humanity in the bicycle . I dined with him the night before he left for

L . M elisan e. ondon You have never told me anything about Pelleas et . d Was it absurd One night I made Frank Harris invite to dinner— We dined at ’ — - Maire s the bill was terrific . was child like and sweet . Runciman n and Mrs . Harris (No . were of course present . Fra k was wonderful on the subject of the Greek passions of Christ and Shakespeare— especially Christ . He insisted that the betrayal by Judas was the revenge of a great lover discarded for that sentimental beast John Rostand and one of

his mistresses was dining at another table . He listened so attentively that E I feel sure he does not understand a word of nglish . Maurice is looking very ill insists that he is consumptive— but ’ - A . M . I don t believe it . He works , or rather over works , with Strong from 9

ff . till 9 . 45 P . M . in a stu y room

Th e . This letter is too tedious and too long . fault is yours You Th e think it good for me that you should never be on my Side . Goliaths

who threaten me are always assisted by my David . Ever yours OSCAR

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omissions . £3 3 Post card P 2 [ aris , July 9 , My Dear Robbie Th e Duchess is l t You are quite right . unfit for pub ica ion — Bu t t the only one of my works that comes under that category . here

are some good lines in it . Could you let me have my £ 1 0 cheque so that I can cash it on — I s t . Monday the August . It would be very good of you is in Paris till Sunday Yours

S . M .

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tolary power . have not been able to write to any one . — Paris is a fiery furnace I walk I n streets of brass . E la lle Pa s I dined last night with Strong, to meet sterhazy and fi y — — who is a most charming woman very clever and handsome . I am to dine with her at the Commandant on Thursday . 50 Maurice never comes to see me . I asked him to breakfast last Sunday week and he never even answered my letter . I am sorry , for I used to like him very much . B ’ T . u t is at rouville still as the doctor won t let him bathe , and ’ his mother won t let him baccarat , he is dreadfully bored . He goes to Aix , next month .

Thanks very much for yr . suggestion to let me have my income — — weekly it is the only thing to do . I must however leave my hotel and — really live as a very poor man My hotel bill for rooms and cafi - au- lait is

0 0 . 1 00 francs a month . I must try to get rooms for 4 francs instead of 7 ’ k I don t think I shall ever really write again . Something is illed in me . — I feel no desire to write I am unconscious of power . Of course my first year in prison destroyed me body and soul . It could not have been otherwise . T - Give my love to dear Reggie . hat harvest moon , loomed

- on me on the Boulevard the other day . He looked like a prize melon .

Do . write and tell me news , when you can Ever yours OSCAR

. 2 . 8v o . 8 0 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E 3 pp We print the letter in full . ’ HOtel de l Ecu Ch anm eri eres - sur- Marne Seine et Oi se [August Dear Robbie — Of course I have not cashed yr . cheque but I want to I must have ten pounds at once— as my Hotel patron comes down here and bores me with horrible cries— D o let me in advance of September — it really would be good of you . I am worried to extinction please wire e — me y s and I will get the money . - I will write my life more fully to morrow . Yours OSCAR Please wri te to me under my real name

8 1 . 8v o . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp . We print the letter in full .

’ Hotel d Alsace Rue des Beaux Arts [ 1 898] D ear Robbie , ? Where are you I received the cheque all right , but there de was no pen or ink in the partement in which I was (Seine et Oise . ) so could not acknowledge it . 5 1 I have been with Rothenstein and Conder— they have both been very Th e — nice to me . Seine is lovely and there are wonderful backwaters w - l with willows and poplars , ith water ilies and turquoise king fishers . I — bathed twice a day and spent most of my time in rowing about . Nicol , P — a i the son of the Glasgow rofessor, was there also n ce fellow, but insane — H — ’ e cannot think or talk so he quotes Swinburne s Poems and B allads — — a . always instead of conversation capital idea , after all Will you let me dedicate The Importance of B eing E arnes t to you ? I - — or would so much like to write your name on the dedication page , at t — any rate , your ini ials the evening papers might disclose your identity if

properly approached . Ever yours OSCA R

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D My ear Robbie , — Thanks so much for the duly received . I wish you and Reggie could have stopped in Paris a night— but I 0 h pe you will pass some days here on yr . return . It is ages since I saw

Reggie . is back from Aix : his mother on leaving gave him £30 to go — to Venice with— h e of course lost it all at once at the Casino and arrived P - in aris on the proceeds of his sleeve links . For the moment he is

penniless . a Frank Harris is at St . Cloud . I have bre kfasted and dined with him , o— of course , many times . Frank has bought a hotel at Monac and hopes to make lots of money— He wants me to go to a place called N apou l — — . P near Cannes where he is goi ng to winter . In aris I certainly do

nothing . Charlie Owen is here— and we all dined one night together— h e is n — really very amusing . He thi ks of going to Japan and then to winter in India ’ Great rows here over Strong selling Esterh azy s confession— h e is

e i . violently attacked by his old confr res , and wr tes terrific diatribes — Do write and give my love to dear Reg . Ever yours OSCAR

S . 2 . . 83 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R T T I M E pp 4to About 1 0 a quarter of a page of MS . is omitted . £ / 5 2 Grand Café 1 4 Boulevard des Capucines Paris [November D My ear Robbie , Th e clothes are quite charming— suitable to my advanced age— Th e trousers are too tight round the waist— that is the result of my rarely having good dinners— nothing fattens so much as a dinner at 0— — 1 fr . 5 but the blue waistcoat is a dream Smithers I received in the — He — same parcel was quite wonderful , and depraved went with monsters — — to the sound of music but we had a good time and he was very nice . Would it bother you if I asked you to let me have my allowance for — December now A wretched inn- keeper at Nogent to whom I owe 1 0 0 ’ 0 0 - francs , out of a bill of 3 , threatens to sell Reggie s dressing case , my ’ - over coat , and two suits , if I don t pay him by Saturday . He has been — — it detaining the things and now threatens a sale is less than a week , so perhaps you might manage it without too much worry to yourself. To — undress is romance , to dress , philanthropy you are quite — philanthropic to me , but you are also romantic the sole instance of the Do — b . lack ofphilosophy in clothes . let me have a cheque ifyou can y return Ever yours OSCAR T 8v o . 84 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp . here i m i sm n I n i are no cons derable o s s this pr nted version .

N 1 8 8 ? Friday . ovember 9 My Dear Robbie I am so sorry about my excuse— I had forgotten I had used Nogent before— it shows the utter collapse of my imagination— and rather distresses me Do let me know about I suppose that London takes no notice

T . at all . hat is the supreme punishment ’ I have corrected 2 /3rds of my proofs— and await the last act— I don t want to make threats— but remember that the dedication is not yet written— and I may write To B R . . Ross in recognition of his good advice

— th . that would be terrible so do not lecture till after Dec. 7 I see a great deal of La Jeunesse— who is more intolerable than ever — and I dined with Strong who has reduced Maurice to a state of silent and frightened idiocy —Dogma without Literature is bad for people Ever yours OSCAR S . . 8v o . 85 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R T T I M E 33 pp One

. 1 page of MS . is omitted here £ 5/ P Taverne F . ousset 1 4 Bould . des Italiens Dec . 2 My Dear Robbie You are usually so kind in sending me my allowance I st on the 3oth of the month , so that I can touch it by the , that I write — to say that nothing has yet arrived the post often goes wrong , so I write merely to tell you I have corrected all the proofs of my play— but I feel sure my woulds and sh ou ld s — m y wills and sh alls are all wrong

perhaps you might look at them .

Shannon will do the cover . Love to Reggie Ever yours OSCAR

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w . Good in Sands by stress of storm , arrived today by the second post I am delighted to hear of my photograph being sold again . it Shows revival of strange sympathies can What you want to lecture me about , except my past and my present ’

i . wh ch you expressly exclude I have no future , my dear Robbie I don t think I am equal to intellectual architecture of thought I have moods — L P L and moments and ove , or assion , with the mask of ove , is my only

consolation . — I h 0pe to see Frank Harris here but as yet have heard nothing . Sir John has not yet arrived . L a I s f Jeunesse publishing a new review . I am going to make an e fort — and to try to write a poem in prose for the first number . It IS quite true that when you talk morals to m em which you do quite beautifully— I always pipe on a reed and a Faun comes running out of the thicket— you at once say What a lovely Faun "Th e rest i s silence that is all I said to Smithers . In the dedication would you like your full name ? Robert Baldwin : B — I Ross or merely Robert . Ross propose to insert the splendid Irish ’ B — is B — a Norman of aldwin which , as you know, audouin most noble

name . 54

— h e Frank Harris has , I hear , gone away did not come to Napoule — ’ after all nor have I heard from him , tho I wrote twice Th e weather is charming— Napoule is nice and dull— I take walks in the pinewoods Yesterday I was by the sea and suddenly George Alexander appeared — h e on a bicycle gave me a crooked , sickly smile , and hurried on without

stopping . How absurd and mean of him A nice fellow called Harold Mellor , who is staying at Cannes , comes ’ — h B — h e over constantly to see me e is a nephew of Mrs . Jacob right s — stayed last night at Napoule and we had plum - pudding and Mellor — ordered Pommery- Greco so I kept Xmas pleasantly and Xmas improves — by being kept a day ou the real Xmas I dined alone . Yours OSCAR

8 . . 8v o . N 9 H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp early i o . 2 a page of MS is om tted here . £ / 8 Dec . 2 HOtel des Bains Napoule Dear Robbie — I never got the Henry James book nor the Volpone. I did l not ike to write to you for either , as you had just given me a blue waist — coat with onyx buttons to have asked for more would have been greedy . B e u t I do think Smithers Shoul d have sent me the Volpon . I read a charming

D . T. little notice of your eulogy , in the I think , and I want very much to it— see as you will , of course , be doing mine some day ff If you happen to have the Henry James , and can a ord stamps , it

would be Sweet of you to send it . I went to Nice the other day— for the afternoon— it was most pretty and gay . I hope you have had a nice Christmas , and that all is well

with yr . people . Ever yours OSCAR

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Napoule . ’ 8 Jany . 2 9 My Dear Robbie — Th e cheque on Cook arrived this morning many thanks — — Th e proprietor was looking a little anxious— rather yellow in fact but

has now quite regained his spirits , as I have told him I shall pay this afternoon — No sign yet of Frank Harris it is a great bore . took me to Nice on Friday and we saw Sarah in La Tosca I went round to see Sarah and she embraced me and wept— and I wept and the whole evening was wonderful . I wish to goodness you would — AS — I come here I need you immensely . regards my marrying again am quite sure that you will want me to marry this time some sensible , ’ - — practical , plain , middle aged [person] and I don t like the idea at all Ever yours OSCAR

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Napoule . T hursday [January , D My ear Robbie , Thanks so much for the Henry James— I think it is a — E most wonderful , lurid , poisonous little tale like an lizabethan tragedy — I am greatly impressed by it . James is developing but he will never

arrive at passion , I fear . I have been over again to Nice with Harold Mellor— for three days — it was most pretty and gay and music every where .

P I n . oor Sir John However , I think he may do well the States [He] was capital company, and a very astounding person in his capacity — — for pleasure grand in his cups and with a heart of gold . — l one . I have received Vo p and read yr . eulogy with great pleasure It is admirably written— I think you have attacked the public a little too — ff ff often Aubrey produced this e ect on them , and the e ect that pleases an B artist . Also , would you really say that yzantine art is our link with the ? ? art of the East Surely it was Greek Bu t it is a delightfully written — — eulogy and most admirable in style full of many very perfect phrases . Ever yours OSCAR N 2 . 8v o . 9 H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp . othing

of consequence is omitted . Napoule ’ Feb y . 2 . 99 . My Dear Robbie T — hank you for the cheque duly received . Your account of Henry James has much amused Frank Harris— it is a delightful story for your memorabilia To - — — — day for the first time rain quite an Irish day . Yesterday was — I Batai l u Th e lovely went to Cannes to see the l e des Fle rs . loveliest carriage— all yellow roses— the horses with traces and harness of violets - — E was occupied by an evil looking old man nglish on the box , beside — a — the coachman , sat his valet very handsome boy all wreathed with

. eronian flowers I murmured Imperial , N Rome I have signed the copies of the play for Smithers— a Japanese for 57 — you Smithers will Show you my list if I have forgotten any one , let me know . Of course dear More Adey has a large paper and also Reggie . Harold Mellor will be in London at the end of the month— h e is going there to get me some neckties . I have asked him to write and let you — — ’ know . He is a charming fellow very cultivated tho he finds that litera T ture is an inadequate expression of life . hat is quite true but a work — L of art is an adequate expression of art that is its aim . Only that . ife is merely the m otif of a pattern . I hope all things are well with you . k Frank Harris is upstairs , thin ing about Shakespeare at the top of his voice— I am earnestly idling Ever yours OSCAR

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Nice . ?2 Saturday [February 5 , I 899] M D y ear Robbie , Just a line to thank you for your kindness I n wiring to me , and letting me have my March allowance now . I am afraid I am a great worry to you .

: . I leave to day Switzerland via Genoa , where I wish to stay a day My address will be c/o Monsieur Harold Mellor

Gland .

Canton Vaud . L a Suisse . I hope to be happy there— at any rate there will be free meals— and champagne has been ordered— tho ’ the Nice doctor now absolutely forbids — me to take any o n account of gout . I am sorry my play is Boycotted by the press— particularly for ’ — Smithers sake h e has shown great pluck in bringing it out at all . How ever I hope some of the faithful , and all the elect will buy copies . If you hear anything nice said about the play , write it to me if not , invent i t . I hear with much regret that the large - paper copies have not been bound yet— I don ’ t know if any of my friends have received copies at all

i n . at any rate , none have written acknowledgment O — h e If you are down at xford , do go and see is most cultivated knew FitzG erald and was at the first night of Lady ’ Winderm ere s Fan I suppose in a perambulator . Ever yours OSCAR P n 6 . o . S . 8v 94 . H E R E P U B L I H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E pp ri ted 2 8 in full here . £ / Gland

Canton Vaud . L a Suisse [February

Mv Dear Robbie . T — hanks for yr . charming letter which I found waiting for me here on my arrival from Genoa yesterday— I t was a great pleasure — writing your name on the page of dedication I only wish it was a more wonderful work of art— of higher seriousness of import— but it has some n amusi g things in it , and I think the tone and temper of the whole thing bright and happy ’ — — I went to Genoa to see Constance s grave it is very pretty a marble cross with dark iv y leaves inlaid in a good pattern— the cemetery is a garden at the foot of the lovely hills that climb into the mountains that girdle Genoa— it was very tragic seeing her name carved on a tomb— her — m — surname y name not mentioned of course just Constance Mary , ” — L . I C . daughter of Horace loyd , Q and a verse from Revelations brought flowers— I ff — some was deeply a ected with a sense , also , of the uselessness of all regrets— Nothing could have been otherwise— and life is a very terrible thing This is a pretty house on the L ake— we look over to the snows and hills of Savoy— Geneva is half an hour by rail— You are to come whenever

V ou . . like April is lovely here , I believe , and plants in flower — T E . here is an Italian cook also the lad olo , who waits at table His father told Mellor at Spezzia that he was christened Eolo because he was born on a night on which there was a dreadful wind I think it is rather E nice to have thought of such a name . An nglish peasant would probably have said We called him John , Sir , because we were getting in the hay at the time ’ T S ed er s i here is no truth at all in g advert sement , and I am very it— it angry about is quite monstrous . My only chance is a play produced anonymously— otherwise the First Night would be a horror— and people would find meanings in every phrase .

I am going to try a bicycle . I have never forgotten the lesson you so — kindly gave me even my leg remembers it . Do write again soon— Have I forgotten any one to whom I should send a copy Ever yours OSCAR P . S . 8v o . 95 H E R E P U B L I H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp rinted in full here . £2074 Gland 1 D Wednesday [March 5 , My ear Robbie , Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness in wiring to me about my brother ’ s death— I suppose it had been expected for 59 . i some time I am very sorry for his wife , who , I suppose , has l ttle left to on— B live etween him and me there had been , as you know , wide chasms R ui scat in Pace for many years . eq e . ’ I don t know what position I hold about this absurd Irish property it comes to me by entail— but I suppose my creditors will claim it— I wish I had asked for my discharge . It was most foolish of me not to . Cd . you ask some solicitor what is likely to be done ? If I could sell it for a fair - - wd . in sum , and have the money , I give my sister law something of course — ’ but I don t know if I can sell . ’ - — I I hope to write more to morrow don t like very much , and d — w . like to get away but , at present , it is impossible Ever yours OSCAR P 8 . 8v o 96 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . pp . rinted o in full here . £4 /

Tuesday [March 2 1 1 899]

Gland . Canton Vaud My Dear Robbie Thank you so much for your long letter— for the first time in my life I was glad that your handwriting was illegible— S o I was — M o tu ra Th e . able to miss a lot or rather forced to . position is this y is — ne entailed on me but not beyond me . O can only entail I believe for ’ two lives in this case my brother s and mine . So the place is mine to — 000 sell and should fetch £3 or a little more . It is beautifully situated ,

and there are lovely trees etc . trus tees As regards my bankruptcy , if my heard of it , they would no it— I doubt try to seize fancy I had best remain passive , and receive the — — M . rents such as they are y brother was bankrupt , and received the rents Why should not I Th e only thing is to ascertain howthe rents were paid — T - in - whether through an agent or not . his my sister law would be able

d . 1 0 . w 0 to tell you I be ready to give her £4 a year , if I received £ 4

Th . (gross) as Sh e has a child . e whole affair is a great bore I wonder h n whether a private sale would be illegal . Of course , w at one wa ts is a solicitor who will be able to Show how one can escape the law . In gaining legal possession of an en tailed estate I wonder has one to go to a Court of Probate ? I wonder does the Court of Bankruptcy take cognizance of ? anything without a creditor applying Bu t I have not much hope of — anything good However , we can try . I dislike because he is unsocial— taciturn— wretched company — He off and takes no pains to please or gratify his guest is very well , but

absurdly mean in everything . He gives me at dinner the most horrid — ’ — Swiss vin ordinaire tho he has a capital cellar and is quite amused by ’ T — the fact that I don t [like] it . here is insanity in his family His mother — is under restraint and his brother went mad and killed himself. His 60 own insanity is misanthropy, and meanness . I am philosophic about it — now indeed we only meet at meals . In the evening he reads the Times — B shd or sleeps both audibly . u t I . love to get away I never dreamed of having Smithers to bring alcoholic experience to bear on my affairs . It was a joke . - in- — if I shall write to Arthur , and also to my sister law you see her , 0 you need not say anything about my proposal to give her £4 a year , if — T Th e I get £ 1 4o here is no necessity to worry you too much . weather — here is bright and sunny but cold . Snow has fallen on the mountains Ever yours OSCAR P S . . 8v o . 97 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R T T I M E 4 pp rinted 2 0 in full here . £ /

?2 6 Sunday [March ,

Gland . D My ear Robbie . I am sending two acts of the new play— (Ideal Hus band) to Sm ithers— after corrections— When they are set up would you look over them- and see that the wills and sh alls are not too Hibernian ’ i n dram atis ers onae— also , I have put descriptions of the p and I don t much — like giving physical details about the bodies whose souls , or minds , or — . words passions , I deal with I build up so much out of that the colour of ’ ni people S hair seems u mportant . So , when it is in proof, will you look over it and tell me your views .

I enclose dedications for the friends you asked me for . Th e only people who have thanked me for the books I sent are you , — P I . More , Reggie , and York owell am rather hurt I will send you a — Japanese paper for Miss Schuster I would like to give her my copy . B ? I still dislike y the way , could you come here for a fortnight T i s — here a petroleum launch on the lake , and bicycles and the country i s pretty . Yours OSCAR

8 . P 8v o . 9 H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 4 pp . rinted in full here . £2 0/ [Gland ] 2 Monday [March 7 , D My ear Robbie . I am dedicating the next play to Frank Harris : I have two sent dedications to Smithers : I like the second best . Will you tell me your Opinion .

I have heard from Arthur : but nothing definite . the great thing is not to give information to Hargrov es et Cie : they are the only enemies I hope the thing will go over quietly . 6 1 I don ’ t think I can come to Paris after all Paris is so expensive I think as soon as I can get away from this loathsome place that I shall go back to Genoa it is better than the Boulevards When you let me have my allowance will you send it through Cook at

Genoa , please of course the sooner I get it the sooner I can leave Gland T which has become intolerable . here are pretty places near Genoa where

I might live for a time . Yours OSCA R

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Canton Vaud . D My ear Robbie , Thanks so much for the cheque— I hope to be able to toucher — If (excellent expression) on Saturday so , I shall leave for Genoa on Sunday morning . I could not stay any longer . He really is too insane , and impossible I never disliked any one so thoroughly— My visit has taught me a curious — and bitter lesson . I used to rely on my personality now I know that os ition— my personality really rested on the fiction ofp having lost position ,

i wd . I find my personal ty of no avail has treated me , as I not have treated the most dull and unimportant of the lower m iddle- classes I feel very humble— besides feeling very indignant— the former being my intellectual realisation of my position— the latter an emotion that is a survival of old conditions ’ P — I won t go to aris because I shd . spend all my money in no time ’ P — I can t live in aris under £ 1 a day it is impossible . Near Genoa I hope to find some little spot— and sunlight counts as half one ’ s income — Your news about M oytu ra are crushing that octopus the Law One — ’ cannot escape I don t know what to d o Do you think that if I applied for my discharge I would get it ? It Har r Co P depends on g ov es . uld he be sounded — Thanks so much for the Outlook— it is a good notice well written — Could you not come to Genoa Do for a month . We never see each

other now . My address will be

Albergo di Firenze .

Genoa . P — lease write and please come . Ever yours OSCAR

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1 0 2 . . . v N H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E 3 pp 8 o . othing of consequence omitted . £ 1 0 /I o/ Santa Marguerita 1 8 L [April 99] igure .

Genoa . D My ear Robbie . I S there any chance of your coming out here ? I wish P — i now I had gone to aris t is so close to you . And here I am ill and

lonely . Th e ff To only thing to do as regards the Irish a airs is , I think , this .

e. approach H to ask him if he will object to my discharge i. if he

will withdraw his claim if he will , there will not be much left to fight against I don ’ t know about Q ueensberry ’ s solicitors— whether they will be hostile , or not . Could H be approached — I hf wd . e I wish you write to me , dear boy simply loathe my at present Yours OSCAR

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h erita L 1 8 . g igure da Rapallo and dated April 7 , 99

D . I . ear R My new address is Ristorante Ch ristofero Colombo : Santa Marguerita : Ligure : Italia : I send you specimens of the views to 2 tempt you . S . M . £ / T II . his is just a mile from Santa Marguerita along the coast it is quite delightful . S . M .

chios tra III . Have not yet been here but have decided to enter the — just the place for me . S . M .

T Portofi no IV . his is a really lovely place [ ] only reached by mules I 1 0 or boats . S . M . £ / /

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HOtel . 1 4 Bould . des Capucines de la Neva P Paris Rue Montigny [ aris] . [Printed heading ] [May D My ear Robbie , ’ i i : I t Smithers letter arrived th s morn ng was , as you know , for me . I hope he will come over . I saw Strong last night at the Horse - Shoe he has taken Grandcourt 64 : as his secretary I did not discuss his treatment of Maurice at all . I - thought it better not . Maurice , I hope , dines with me to night . I was so sorry you had to go , but it was charming being with you , and it was really most sweet of you to come to Italy to save me from — I P Santa Margherita am quite happy in aris . Do write soon E ver, with fondest love OSCAR

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1 B . HOt el M arsollier 4, ould des Capucines Paris Rue M arsollier P P 2 [ rinted heading ] [ aris] [May 9 , Dear Robbie

Wd . you kindly send me the June allowance tomorrow by ’ an order on Cook— so that I can toucher on the I st ? I believe you don t

like the swifter mode of telegraphing . Th e m — I unmasking of our poor S ithers has been a blow found out , S e u ah by chance , that he was employed by q to get my play at one fourth e ah ff of the terms S qu had o ered . It is too astonishing for words . Smithers ’ l homm e de aille — I w is merely p , paid to get round me have ired to him to tell him I have found it all out , and to advise him to come over at once Yours

OSCAR .

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1 B . 0 M ars ollier 4, ould des Capucines H tel Paris [Paris] P [ rinted heading ] Tuesday . M D y ear Robbie , T hanks for yr . letter . Smithers has not yet sent the — h e cheque says in his letter that he will do so when he sees you . P f aris is aw ully hot quite dreadful . I long to be away . I saw Ada Rehan and Augustin Daly the other night at the Cafe’ de la Paix— where had invited me to dine they were most charming her hair has turned quite white I accused her at once of dyeing her — hair white she was delighted . T hey also want me to write something for them . Yours 1 1 0 . . . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E 2 pp 4to . We omit about half a page of MS .

HOt l M ar ll e so ier . Rue M arsollier Paris [June

My Dearest Robbie . Thanks so much the arrived safe at ’ I am delighted to hear of s great success he sent me a copy — in : r apparently fact I know he did but it has never ar ived . Some lyrical postman stole it , I suppose . I dined with Stuart Merrill the other day— Ferdinand Herold was — there and sent me subsequently a lovely edition of Le V ie et la M ort de la S ainte Vier e— a b e g book compiled from apocryphal gospels and elsewhere .

It is very charming, and written in verses . I see a good deal of a young poet called Michael Robes : we — went to the Montmartre the other day to the cafe where Jehan Rictus , reat — the poet , recites . I was received with g honour and everyone was : presented to me I was not allowed to pay for my bocks , and the — chasseur begged for my autograph in his album which contained , he cin uante- trois oetes et deux m eurtriers " told me , the autographs of q p , I

graciously acceded . Yours OSCAR

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HOtel M arsollier Rue M arsollier

My Dear Robbi e . Th e £ 1 0 arrived safe : Marchand was addressing the — — mob next door a t the Military Club so I had to fight my way to Cooks but by the aid of patriotic cries I succeeded in forcing a passage through

the patriots . I did think it curious when S m ithers told me that you wanted to b e 0 repaid the hotel bill at Genoa , the 5 francs at Santa Margherita , and the railway- ticket but I concluded that there had been an earthquake in Phillim ore Gardens I also thought it odd that you never wrote to tell

me that you had received it . When you give , my dear Robbie , you give — — I to there is no one so generous , so good as you are have written

Smithers to send it to me at once , as I am going now to Havre . I found — P Fontaineble au relaxing but I am fond of the sea . I cannot stay in aris — it costs too much . 66 — I has [portion missing] horse am very glad . : I saw last night . He was very insane , and sentimental wept over a friendship of seventeen years— upon the other hand abused all my friends in the foulest way . I had to stop him in a peremptory T — manner . hree times he parted from me and three times I found him following me to other places . He and Strong have each other on the — brain they talk of nothing else . It is a great bore . Robert has almost lost all his good looks— He was dreadful of aspect last night : quite dreadful K — I think i t I am very glad Will is marrying Miss ingsley only right , and I like her immensely— Your proposal to sacrifice your [portion missing] always seemed to me [monstro] us . Ever yours OSCAR P 8v o . 1 1 . . 2 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E 3 pp rinted " in full . £5/5l

’ HOtel d Alsace Rue des Beaux- Arts Paris October 9th My Dear Robbie I have to thank you for your kindness in sending me my n allowance now due I h0 pe to thank you in person before lo g . Will Rothenstein and his wife have been here— and we dined many times together . He has secured some wonderful drawings and casts from — Rodin and was in excellent spirits . B elieve me ,

dear Robbie ,

your sincere friend , OSCAR WILDE

1 8v 0 P 1 3 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 3 pp . . rinted in full . ’ Hotel d Alsace Rue des Beaux Arts Dear Robbie [October Thanks for the cheque ’ Do let me see you on your way thro Paris ? Are you serious about a postcard dated October 7th Wd . not the - l . post mark be noticed I , of course , will do as you ike — — Th e B was wonderful here purple and perfect oulevard , I

regret to say, still talks of him — I hope to write soon to you an interesting letter this is a scrawl . Yours 1 1 . . 8v o P 4 H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E 3 pp . . rinted in full . £4/

’ Hotel d Alsace B - Rue des eaux Arts . P aris .

. 1 00 . Jany 2 . 9 Dear Robbie I have to acknowledge with thanks the two cheques you D have sent me for my income for ecember and January in all . P aris has been cold and wet , but I had a very pleasant Xmas Pray remember me to your mother : I was delighted to see her looking so well when she was in Paris Ever yours OSCAR WILDE

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phrase omitted . £36/ G rand Café 1 B 1 4 , oulevard des Capucines , 4 Paris Thursday [ 1 900] Dear Robbie

I am so annoyed at your not writing to me every day , that I must come and talk to you . with whom I am now friends— (below zero of course) has invited me to go to Italy to the extent of 50 When that gives out I Shall have to walk home , but as I want to see you I have consented to go — and hope to be in Rome in about 1 0 days— it will be delightful to be together again— and this time I really must become a Catholic— though I fear that if I went before the Holy Father with a blossom ing rod it would turn at once into an umbrella or something dreadful of that kind . It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past . It has not yet begun . w — Yo“ur story of dear Ro land is charming how dangerous it is to be called John is the moral . Any thing may happen to a person called

John .

You have not yet broken to me the impression I produced on Aleck . I suppose it was painful . All went well till an unlucky thing occurred . T ’ Only an hour after I , with waving hands like ennyson s Vivien , had evolved a new evangel of morals , dear Aleck passed before the little ' ca e f behind the Madeleine . Alas , the eye he turned on me was not B ’ the Sightless one . His smile was terrible . It was like one of esant s

novels .

I really felt it very m uch . At luncheon I had been singularly ethical . I am always ethical at the Café de la Paix . 68 W' ire , or write at once to me , Chez Gland

Vaud .

Narcissi. . tell me a good hotel . Also bed out some season

With best love , dear horrid irritating Robbie , Yours OSCAR P 8v 0 . . 8 . 1 1 6 . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E pp hrases i om tted throughout . £45/

’ Grand Café HOt el d Alsace 1 B 1 B - 4, oulevard des Capucines , 4 Rue des eaux Arts Paris Paris [Printed heading ] [ 1 900] Dearest Robbie I have at last arrived— I stayed ten days with : Gland the automobile was delightful , but , of course , it broke down l — they, ike all machines , are more wilful than animals nervous , irritable , strange things I am going to write an article on nerves in the inorganic world Frank Harris is here— also I asked what you suggested without mentioning any sum at all— after dinner— h e had just won £400 — — at the races and £800 a few days before so he was in high spirits .

When I spoke to him he went into paroxysms of rage , followed by satirical laughter— and said it was the most monstrous suggestion he had ever heard— that he would do nothing of the kind— that he was astounded at my suggesting such a thing that he did not recognise I had any claim — — of any kind on him He was really revolting I was quite disgusted . I told Frank Harris about it— and he was greatly surprised but made the wise observation One should never ask for anything it is always a mistake - — He said I Should have got some one to s ound and ask him for me — I had also the same idea , but you did not seem to like the prospect of a correspondence with where money was concerned— and I am not surpri sed

I t - ff is a most horrible and really heart breaking a air, when I remember his assurances of eternal devotion his incessant offers of all his l — — Th e ife and belongings well I t sickens me it gives me nausea . — f P — so I a fair occurred in the Café de la aix , of course , I made no scene that if he did not recognise my claim— there was nothing more to be ssaid1 We dined last night with Frank Harris at Maires— I was quite as

usual , but he really is , now that he has money , become mean , and narrow and greedy— He always accused you of having the bourgeois commercial — i — view of money instead of the generous , chivalrous , aristocrat c view but 69 ’ - H f he really has out erod ed Herod this time . I can t a ford to spend — anything except on myself - was one of his observations I thought of

you , and dear More , and all yr . generosity and chivalry and sacrifice for — I t — it i i me is an ugly thing taints l fe Send me my cheque , l ke a good b oy Ever yours OSCAR I am horrified about Smithers . It really is too bad .

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were in the country where you must have had heaps of leisure . I now

beg you to send me a cheque at once , and also a long letter . I have been with at Gland he is almost as neurasthenic as I am but there was the automobile . I had to consult a specialist before I P left aris , I was so ill it seems that not mussels but neurasthenia was

the cause of my illness , which had returned with renewed violence . — I am very glad my Sister - in- law is to be married to Texeira it is an

excellent idea . ? I hear Reggie is in France . I wish he wd . come here . How are you do let me know what you are doing— and how Max ’ s engagement is going — on it is the only amusing engagement I ever heard of. Yours OSCAR

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sions of no consequence .

D ear Robbie , T hanks for cheque . Frank Harris has Spoken to who now seems to have more sense of the Situation— and what he should do his only fear was that he had

spent all his money but he cannot be serious . So if you write to him

perhaps it wd . be better to say how pleased you are to hear from me that he is going to arrange some scheme for me Why doesn ’ t Reggie come to Paris ? Frank Harris is very wonderful and really very good and sympathique — He always comes two hours late for meals but in Spite of that is delightful . 7 0

have rendered but by mud and blur those golden lamps hung in a green Th e night that filled me with such joy . elaborate and exquisite details of the true Pre - Raphaelites is the compensation they ofl er us for the absence of motion literature and music being the only arts that are not

immobile . T — in hen nowhere , not even at Ravenna , have I seen such mosaics P the Cappella alatina , which from pavement to domed ceilings is all gold , one really feels as if one was Sitting in the heart of a great honeycomb lookin — i g at angels singing and look ng at angels , or indeed at people singing ,

is much nicer than listening to them . For this reason the great artists - always give to their angels lutes without strings , pipes without vent holes ,

and reeds through which no wind can wander or make whistlings . — — Monreale you have heard of with its cloisters and cathedral we often — cocchieri fi nel - — in drove there the most dainty , y carved boys them , not in

I . the Sicilian horses , is race seen . . only remember Manuele wi I n I also made great friends th a young Seminarist , who lived the Cathedral of Palermo— h e and eleven others— in little rooms beneath the roof— like birds Every day he Showed me all over the Cathedral— and I really knelt before the huge porphyry sarcophagus in which Frederick the Second hes — it — - is a sublime bare monstrous thing blood coloured , and held up by E ’ lions, who have caught some of the rage of the great mperor s restless L m e soul . At first , my young friend , Giuseppe overde by name , gave : re information but on the third day I gave information to him , and K wrote History as usual , and told him all about the supreme ing and his

P . Court of oets , and the terrible book that he never wrote His reason for entering the Church was singularly mediaeval . I asked him why he thought of becoming a clerico and how : He answered My Father is a cook , and most poor and we are

many at home , so it seemed to me a good thing that there should be in so

small a house as ours one mouth less to feed , for, although I am slim , I ” eat much too much , alas I fear . I told him to be comforted , because God used poverty often as a means of bringing people to him , and used riches never , or but rarely . So Giuseppe was comforted , and I gave him a little book of devotion , very it— So pretty , and with far more pictures than prayers in of great service

to Giuseppe . We came to Rome on Holy Thursday left on Saturday for — P Gland and yesterday , to the terror of and all the apal Court , I in P appeared the front rank of the ilgrims in the Vatican , and got the — blessing of the Holy Father a blessing they would have denied me . He was wonderful as he was carried past me on his throne— not of flesh and blood— but a white soul robed in white— and an artist as — well as a saint the only instance in History, if the newspapers are to be

believed . I have seen nothing like the extraordinary grace of his gesture , as 7 2 3 N ews

V I I Fa s im i e a M S . a e rom No. 1 2 0 . . c l of p g f 73 — [he] rose , from moment to moment , to bless possibly the pilgrims , but n certai ly me . T ree should see him . It is his only chance . - I was deeply impressed , and my walking stick showed Signs of budding n would have budded indeed , only at the door of the Chapel it was take K T from me by the nave of Spades . his strange prohibition is , of course , ’ in honour of Tannhauser . ? B How did I get the ticket y a miracle , of course . I thought it was

flort . n e O 0 c . hopeless , and made no of any kind Saturday afternoon at 5 0 ’ E l u ro e . Harold and I went to have tea at the H tel de p Suddenly , as I l was eating buttered toast , a man , or what seemed to be one , dressed ike a Hotel Porter entered and asked me would I like to see the Pope on — “ Easter Day I bowed my head humbly and said Non s um dignus or

ff . N0 words to that e ect He at once produced a ticket (See illustration .

h i s u hness When I tell you that countenance was of supernatural g , and that the price of the ticket was thirty pieces of silver , I need say no more . An equally curious thing is that whenever I pass the Hotel , which I do constantly, I see the same man . Scientists call that phenomenon an obsession of the visual nerve . You and I know better . On the afternoon of Easter D ay I heard vespers at the L ateran B — music quite lovely at the close a ishop in red , and with red gloves such as Pater talks of in Gaston de la Tour— came out on the balcony and l showed us the re ics . He was swarthy , and wore a yellow mitre . A i B sinister mediaeval man , but superbly Gothic , just l ke the ishops carved

on stalls or on portals . And when one thinks that once people mocked at - T Th e stained glass attitudes hey are the only attitudes for the clothed . B sight of this ishop , whom I watched with fascination , filled me with the N sense of the great realism of Gothic art . either in Greek nor in Gothic P - art is there any pose . osing was invented by bad portrait painters , and

the first person who ever posed was a stockbroker, and he has gone on i ever S nce .

- I send you a photograph I took on Palm Sunday at Palermo . Do send me some of yours and try to read this letter . It is a labour

of a week to read it . K indest regards to your dear mother . Always OSCAR

1 2 1 . 8 . 8v o . H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . pp About - 6 a half page of the MS . is omitted here . £3 / [Rome] 2 Venerdi [April 7 , Dear Robbie

Wd . it bore you awfully to send me my allowance in an ? order on Cook here It takes a week to cash a cheque . I know it will 74 — — bore you but then you are a little saint not , I am glad to say, in — conduct which is nothing but in soul , which is all . I am so glad you told me about More ’ s loss— I had the chance of writing to him about all his sweet courteous gentle kindness to my own mother . He is so good to others , that one feels it is vulgar to praise him

h . to imself, and to praise him to others unnecessary — — I h 0 pe to see him in the Vatican not as the knave of spades but — — mediaeval— or rather Renaissance ruff and gold chain and the sombre

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: . splendour of black raiment a Spanish fashion , I believe All the people at the Vatican try to look like More— that they succeed is more their fault than his — To - G day, on coming out of the Vatican allery Greek Gods and the Roman middle - classes in my brain— all marble to make the contrast worse— I found that the Vatican Gardens were open to the Bohemian and flu entl the Portuguese pilgrims . I at once spoke both languages y E explained that my nglish dress was a form of penance , and entered that P — L — waste , desolate ark with its faded ouis XIV gardens its sombre — — Th e avenues its sad woodland peacocks screamed , and I understood Bu t why tragedy dogged the gilt feet of each Pontiff. I wandered in exquisite melancholy for an hour . I have been reading dear Aymer Vallance on Burne -Jones - his — i decorative side t is most delightful .

NO more paper . lways yours A OSCAR

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. 6 two pages of the MS are omitted here . £3 / Thursday

Rome .

Dearest Robbie . Your telegram just arrived : its d ecyph ering was most fasci nati ng work we all felt like the archaeologists over the stone at the

L apis Niger : which stone I believe to . be an early example of Roman humour F escennine licence it was called later on . — To - I wrote to you yesterday to the Cavour . day is wet and stormy but I have again seen the Holy Father— each time he dresses differently To - it is most delightful . day over his white a purple velvet cape edged — with ermine and a huge scarlet and gold stole . I was deeply moved as usual .

I gave a ticket to a new friend Dario . I like his name so much . Th e P pilgrims arrive in great black swarms . I am sure that haraoh

: . was punished by a plague of them some of them , however , go mad T T hree cases yesterday . hey are much envied by their more sane brethren I wish you would write to me about Venice— it is really absurd — is it due to Symonds 75 — He How is dear More was missed as usual at the Vatican . Carlyle P ’ Stebbing does not suit St . eter s . its astounding proportions increases his Si ze i t is most curi ous

Write soon . Ever yours OSCAR

1 2 . S . 2 0 8 v o . 3 H E R E P U B L I H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E pp . About 2 3 pp . of the MS . are omitted here .

Roma . Saturday My Dear Robbie A thousand thanks for all your trouble— the cheque

arrived safely this morning . lVIilan Of course I got yr . telegram from , and wrote to you at the — a Hotel Cavour long , interesting , and of course seriously compromising t letter . Should it fall into the hands of the authori ies you will be immortal . I have not seen the Holy Father since Thursday— but am bearing up wonderfully well . I am sorry to say he has approved of a dreadful i n B l handkerchief, with a portrait of himself the middle , and asi icas at the corners— it is very curi ous the connection between Faith and bad art— I B feel it myself. Whenever I see the Pope I admire ernini : but Bernini — i i had a certain dash and life and assertion theatrical l fe , but l fe for all that

the handkerchief is a dead thing . By the way did I tell you that on Easter Sunday I was completely - ? cured of my mussel poisoning it is true , and I always knew I would be a ewish P five months under J physician at aris not merely did not heal me ,

but made me worse the blessing of the Vicar of Christ made me whole . P — a B t l - — Armand oint the French painter , bad ot icel i Jones artist is m Tabella votiva— ff t here , and has pro ised to do me a the only di icul y is — the treatment of the mussels they are not decorative , except the shells , ’ and I didn t eat the shells . I have been three times to see the great Velasquez of the Pam phili Th e Pope it is quite the grandest portrait in the world . entire man is

there . I also go to look at the beautiful voluptuous marble at the Museo Nazionale . What a lovely thing it is : Yesterday a painful thing happened you know the terrible , the f : awe inspiring e fect that Royalty has on me well , I was outside the — Café Nazionale taking iced coffee with gelato a most delightful drink K when the ing drove past . I at once stood up , and made him a low bow , with hat doffed— to the admiration of some Italian officers at the next table it was only when the King had passed that I remembered that I was Papis ta and neriss im o I was greatly upset : however I hope the ’

No . . Vatican won t hear about it . (See illustration VIII , p I enclose you a little cutting that appeared in Palermo while I was 76 Fa s imi e M S a e ro o 1 2 . m . VIII . of a . p g f N 3 c l 7 7 — there . My incognito vanished in three hours and the students used to — come to the café to talk or rather to listen . To their great delight I always denied my identity . On being asked my name , I said every man T has only one name . hey asked me what name that was . I o was T n my answer . his was regarded as a wonderful reply, containi g in it all philosophy Rome 1 3 burning with heat : really terrible but at I am going th e B — B i to orghese , to look at daisies , and drink milk the orghese m lk is as wonderful as the Borghese daisies— I also intend to photograph Arnaldo — By the way can you photograph cows well ? I did one of cows in the B orghese so marvellous , that I destroyed it I was afraid of being called P P — the modern aul otter Cows are very fond of being photographed , and , ’ unlike architecture , don t move .

- — I propose to go to Orvieto to morrow . I have never seen it and I ’ — a must revisit Tivoli . How long I shall stay here I don t know fortnight perhaps . ’ Write always to Cook s . Love to More and Reggie Ever yours OSCAR

1 . . v o . 2 4 H E R E P U B L I S H E D F O R T H E F I R S T T I M E . 8 pp 8 We 6/ omit about 2 3 pages of the MS . £3 P XX Write to aris . Rome . May i 4th

Dearest Robbie . ’ You never write to me now— so I don t kn ow if it is worth mi while infor ng you of my movements . - N — However , I leave Rome to morrow for aples thence by boat to G — — enoa thence to Chambrey where awaits me , or Should do so , with his automobile— and so to Paris — I suppose one of us will arrive safe I hope it will be me . — it Rome has quite absorbed me . I must winter here is the only city — . l T of the Soul I have been to A bano , and Nemi , and ivoli and seen much of Armand Point— who is really a dear fellow— gay and romantic simple an d intellectually subtle— with an inordinate passi on for beauty I n its most complete expression , and an inordinate love of life . My photographs are now so good that in my moments of mental — depression (alas not rare) , I think that I was intended to be a photo — Bu t o ff grapher I shake the mood , and know that I was made for more

terrible things , of which colour is an element . — . Th e e i s . cloister or the caf there my future I tried the Hearth , but it was a failure Ever yours OSCAR

1 2 8 . S . i 8v o . O H E R E F I R S T P U B L I H E D . 4 pp m ssions of minor

importance . £2 0/ Grand Café 1 B 4 , oulevard des Capucines , Paris 1 Saturday . Sept . [Printed heading ] My Dear Robbie T hanks for the cheque . Your letter is very maddening nothing about yourself : no details— and yet you know I love middle class tragedies— and the little squabbles that build up family life in England— I have had delightful letters from you quite in the style of Jane — Austen You , I know , are the Cinderella of your family , and lead them all — — a dreadful life like your Marchen - prototype z you turned your dear mother ’ s carriage into a pumpkin— and won ’ t let your sisters wear your l — - s ippers and always have the comfortable ingle nook by the fire , except i S t . in summer , when you make poor Alec there ” Th e cure was dull— but I got better— h e is now in Paris — — h e with his slave who like all slaves is most tyrannical and I ,

however , are great friends . I think is on the verge of acute melancholia— at present he has — almost arrived at total abstinence drinks and talks mineral waters . I

like people who talk wine . So is in London where is he staying ? Do you think he has ? really spent all his money It is a great pity if he has . How is dear More and Reggie — Paris is full of second- rate tourists German and American are the only languages one hears . I t is dreadful . Yours OSCAR

6 . 8v o . 1 2 9 . H E R E F I R S T P U B L I S H E D . pp About one and a quarter pages of the MS . are omitted here . [Printed heading] Grand Café 1 B 4, oulevard des Capucines Paris [Date torn out] My Dear Robbie Thanks for the cheque— I enclose receipt I am horrified at what you tell me about its impertinence , its r coarseness , its lack of imagination I should really w ite to him if I were you . He who seven times sought , and seven times received the blessing of the Holy Father , is not to be excommunicated by the withered eunuch of the Vatican (By He I mean myself. ) 8 0 I t is a curious , and therefore natural thing , but I cannot stand Christians because they are never Catholics , and I cannot stand Catholics because they are never Christians— otherwise I am at one with the Indivisible Church B y the way , I suppose the great revival of architecture , Gothic and

Renaissance , was due simply to the fact that God found he could only live i in temples made by hands . in the heart of man he could not l ve , he was not the first — we E I have seen Maurice lately spent two evenings at the xhibition . He does odd jobs for Strong , and quarrels with him incessantly . From yr . silence about my worst suspicions are confirmed is it ? a sprightly lady-journalist who led him astray or was it one of those typical English women with their fatal gift of duty

I have not seen for a week . I feel sure he will do nothing brandy, and betting monopolise his soul . He is really a miser but his method of hoarding is spending a new type .

Love to R . Yours OSCAR Th S S . e 1 3 0 . H E R E F I R T P U B L I H E D last letter Wilde sent before his - death . It was actually written on his death bed , when he was too ill to write himself, and is dictated to and written down by his friend Maurice . ’

Th e in . 8v o . last few words and the signature are Wilde s hand . 4 pp P 0 rinted in full . £5 / ’ Hotel d Alsace Rue des Beaux Arts Paris Wednesday [November D My ear Robbie , How could I have written to you during the last three months considering that I have been in bed since last Monday ? I am i very ill 81. the doctor is mak ng all kinds of experiments . My throat is a limekiln , my brain a furnace and my nerves a coil of angry adders .

I am apparently in much the same state as yourself. Maurice— you remember Maurice— has kindly come to see me I ’ ve shared all my medicines with him shown him what little hospitality I ’ s can . We are both horrified to hear that suspicions of you are quite T P uni ue justified . hat your being a rotestant make you terribly q (I have told Maurice how to spell the last word as I was afraid that he might have used a word which often occurs in the Protestant bible) . Alec lunched with me one day I lunched alone with him n another . He was most friendly pleasant gave me a depressi g account

r t enic. of you . I see that you like myself have become a neu as h I have been so for four months quite unable to get out of bed till the afternoon , quite unable to write letters of any kind . My doctor has been trying to cure me

8 1 with arsenic and strychnine but without much success as I became poisoned through eating mussels . So you see what an exacting and tragic life I i P have been lead ng . oisoning by mussels is very painful when one has ’ P one s bath one looks like a leopard . ray never eat mussels . As soon as ’ I get well I ll write you a long letter , though your letter asking me to stay

with you in Rome never reached me . T — hanks so much for the cheque but yr . letter was really too horrid .

With love , Ever yours OSCAR T P LETTE ’ FIVE IMPORTANT AU OGRA H RS , in Wilde s hand throughout , 8 1 . i written about 75 , when he was touring in Italy Accompany ng the

letters are four pages of original sketches by Wilde , illustrating the things T he saw . here is also an envelope in the handwriting of his father :

. L P Th e Oscar etters from Milan , adua , Venice , Verona . L original envelopes to Sir W . R . Wills Wilde and to ady Wilde are also preserved . £2 0 0/

1 T () A D D R E S S E D T o H I S F A T H E R . uesday . Went in the morning L to see S . orenzo , built in the usual Florentine way, cruciform a long hall supported by Grecian pillars— a gorgeous dome in the centre and three ” off T aisles leading it . here follows a detailed description of the Medici i chapels , of various granite and porphyry sarcophagi , mentioning M chael ’ N T B Angelo s statues of ight and Morning, etc . hen to the ibliotheca L aurenziana where I was Shown wonderfully illuminated missals and — unreadable MSS . and decorations I remarked the extreme clearness of i B ff the initial letters in the Ital an missals and ibles , so di erent from those B K Th e in the ook of ells etc . , which might stand for anything . early i T illum nations are very beautiful in design and sentiment . hen to E Onofi co the truscan Museum which is in the suppressed monastery of S . ” r and most interesting . A detailed desc“ription of the ent ance and the interior of the museum then follows . In the evening we dined at a restaurant on top of S . Miniato . Coming back I met just outside the Pitti Palace a wonderful funeral— a long procession of monk s bearing

torches , all in white and wearing a long linen veil over the faces . T ffi hey bore two co ns , and looked like those awful monks you see in ” 1 Th e f . pictures of the Inquisition . Maha fy is not come yet letter ends ’ with a mention of the fétes on the anniversary of Michael Angelo s birthday

f . . . and a reference to local a fairs at home . It is signed Oscar O F W

8v o . Wilde and there is a small sketch at the side of the Signature . 4 pp . (2 ) T H I S L E T T E R begins at page 2 with a description of some Etruscan T statues . here are also wonderful sarcophagi , which I have roughly drawn for you 2— at the top a figure of the dead man or woman holding a l plate containing the obol for paying the ferryman over Styx . A so extra 1 P M h wi w s h a aff h wh om Wi d e as at c oo . J. . y, 2 t l l S e N on th e accom an in i lu s a ion . e o . I p y g l tr t 8 2

— — I ordinary jars with heads and arms funeral , of course have drawn ” 1 them . Further and more elaborate description of the 1 50 sarcophagi

2 . 8 . . 8v o . . v o follows , but the letter is not signed pp 4 pp of drawings .

t . . (See illustra ion No IX , p

(3) T H E E N V E L O P E O F T H I S L E T T E R , addressed to his mother , is

i . preserved . From M lan It is mostly cast in the form of a diary . Left Florence with much regret on Saturday night— passed through the Apennines— beautiful Alpine scenery— train runs on Side of mountai ns T half way up . here follows a description of the mountain scenery and of Italian scenery generally . Within four miles of Venice a complete — change— a bleak bog exactly like Bog of Allen only flatter— crossed over — a big lagune on a bridge and arrived at Venice 7 . 3 o seized on immediately black - by gondoliers and embarked with our luggage into a , hearse like barge— such as King Arthur was taken away in after the fatal battle fi nally through long narrow canals we arrived at our hotel— which was in P . i the great iazza S Marco , the only place in Venice except the R alto any o ne walks in— plan of it [an elaborate plan is drawn showing the position T — h e . of the hotel] . Church of S Marco is most gorgeous a splendid B — yzantine church covered with gilding and mosaics , inside and out . N ’ . D Splendid gates of bronze , everything glorious ext to it the oges P i s — alace , which beyond praise inside , giant council chambers , the walls painted with frescoes by Titian of the great battles of the Venetians— the ceiling crossed by gilded beams and rich engilded carvings — rooms fit for - walls the noble looking, grave senators whose pictures are on the by T T B itian or intoretto . eneath all this greatness are the most dismal — dungeons and torture rooms most terrible . Visited some of the islands off Venice— on one an Armenian monastery where Byron used to — L live went to another S . ido , a favourite place on Sunday , and had — oysters and shrimps returned home in the flood of a great sunset . Venice is a city just risen from the sea— a long line of crowded churches and palaces— everywhere white or gilded domes and tall campaniles— no N — a OPE ING in the whole city except at the Piazza S . Marco great pink sunset with a long line of purple thunder clouds behind the city— after dinner went to the theatre and saw a good circus— luckily a wonderful — L Th moon we landed from our gondola at the ion of St . Mark . e scene was so romantic that [it] seemed to be an artistic scene from an ’ opera— we sat on the base of the pillar— on one side of us the Doges P ’ B — alace , on the other the king s palace . ehind us the campanile the water steps crowded with black gondolas— and a great flood of light coming — right up to us across the water every moment a black , silent gondola ” I n would glide across this great stream of light and be lost the darkness .

T I . s . 2 . 8v o his letter not sign“ed pp in (4) F R O M M I L A N . I believe you left me last look g at the moon — ff from the Piazza St . Marco with di iculty we tore ourselves away to the hotel . There follows a description of a trip on the Grand Canal in a 1 S ee No 2 on t h e accom an in i u s a io n . . p y g ll tr t gondola . Stopped to see the picture gallery, which as usual was in a — T T T ’ suppressed monastery itian and intoretto in great force , itian s — Assumption certainly the best picture in Italy Went to a lot of churches ,

all , however , in extravagant baroque style , very rich in worked metal T and polished marble and mosaic , but as a rule inartistic . here are — nn B two great pictures one a beautiful Mado a by ellini , the other a picture ’ D L Bonfazio n n lovel of ives and azarus by , contai ing the o ly y woman s face

I have seen in Italy . Mentions a visit to a concert and criticizes the dress fashions . After marriage , the Italian women degenerate awfully but the boys and girls are beautiful— amongst married women the general ‘ ’

B . T . types are itians and an ugly sallow likeness of ettini Venice , in — it i s beauty of architecture and colour , is beyond description the meeting place of the Byzantine and Italian art belonging to the E as t as much Th e — as to the West . cathedral outside most elaborate in pinnacles and statues awfully out of proportion with the rest of the building— inside most impressive through its huge Size and giant pillars supporting the roof — some good old stained glass and a lot of hideous modern win dows— these moderns don ’ t see that the use of a window in a church is to Show a beautiful massing together and blending of colour— a good old window has the rich pattern of a Turkey carpet— the figures are quite subordinate and only serve to Show the sentiment of the designer— a modern fresco style of window has silo naturd to compete with painting and of course looks monstrous and theatrical— the cathedral is an awful failure— outside the — design is monstrous and inartistic the over - elaborated details stuck high — up where no one can see them everything is vile in it . It is , however , ” B imposing and gigantic as a failure . Mentions a visit to the aptistery

P D . at adua and the great frescoes of Giotto . escribes the beautiful ceiling Of and the beauty purity of sentiment , the clear transparent colour ,

bright as the day it was painted on , the harmony of the whole building, I P am unable to tell you . He is the first of all painters . adua is a

quaint town with good colonnades along each street , a university like a n barracks , one charming church (S . A astasie) and a lot of bad ones , and

n . n o the best restaura t in Italy Me ti ns witnessi“ng a performance of Ham l t n - e in Vero a . Mentions the market place : filled with the most gigantic umbrellas I ever saw— like young palm trees— under which sat ” fi ne fruit sellers . Visits the Ambrosian Library . Mentions the manu scripts and palimpsests and a Bible with Irish glosses of the sixth or seventh P ff ’ century . refers Ra aelle s drawings to his pictures , and mentions some Th e Diirers C orre ios P . Holbeins and , also gg and eruginos gem of the B n whole collection is a lovely Madonna by ernardi o , standing among a A n lot of trellised roses that Morris and Rossetti would love . other by him we saw in the library with background of lilies Milan is a second Paris ‘ of all the town white stone and gilding . Had some good wine Asti like good cider or sweet champagne . In the evening went to see a new opera D olores by a young maestro called Au b eri. A good imitation B — of ellini in some parts , some pretty rondos but its general character G 2 85 — was inharmonious shouting however , the frantic enthusiasm of the people knew no bounds— every five minutes a terrible furore— yelling of bravas from every part of the house— followed by a frantic rush of all the actors wh o for the composer , was posted at the Side scenes ready to rush out on the slightest symptom of approval— a weak looking creature who placed

his grimy hand on a shady looking shirt to show his emotion , fell on the ’ i n prima donna s neck ecstasy , and blew kisses to us all . He came out no — less than nineteen times and finally three crowns were brought out , one

of which , a great laurel one with green ribbons , was clapped on his head , and as his head was so very narrow it rested partly on a very large angular

- nose and partly on his grimy shirt collar . A thumb nail Sketch of the Th e composer is included in the letter . letter goes on to say that his

companions will continue their journey , but as he had no money he was Th e 8 . 8v o . obliged to leave them . letter is signed Oscar pp N P (5) A S H O R T O T E , stating that he will be in aris on Monday and has two pounds and has had only one letter from his mother and one fr“om his father Since he left , but supposes there are some in Florence . If P there is no money at aris for me I will not know what to do , but I feel Th e : sure there will be the genial five pounds . letter is signed

O . . Yours ever , scar O F Wilde

’ N T P LETTE FRAGME T FROM AN AU OGRA H R to Frank Harris , in Wilde s Th e . 1 2 . hand throughout pages beginning , the end and a portion of 1 2 the middle of the letter , which probably extended to a further pages ,

are missing, and a small piece is torn from the first part of this letter . 0 tragic and pathetic letter written from Paris I n 1 900 . £5 /

Smithers goes privately to you and blackmails you out of £ 1 0 0 . If my agreement with Smithers is worth the paper it is written on , it f belongs to the O ficial Receiver . Smithers has no more right to it than Robbie Ross or Reggie Turner . Smithers told Robbie Ross a month ‘ ’ ’ Th e ago that he was going to blackmail you . word was Smithers

own . Robbie thought it was a joke and was astounded last night to find

you had fallen into the trap . If you have a good solicitor he will be able to make this wretch Smithers disgorge without the I ’ Receiver hearing anything of the matter . . don t suppose I shall get

6d . . much of what he owes me out of Smithers , in the pound possibly ‘ On September 2 6 you signed an agreement promising to pay within a ’ week from that date the sum of £ 1 75 . . You had left your cheque

book I n London but would send me a chequeon your return .

Th e manuscript is interrupted here , but goes on T wice a day a surgeon comes to dress my wounds , which are not yet m healed the doctor calls every second day . My bill at the che ist is

£35 and my expenses and debts amount to about £2 00 . I [am]

almost literally without a penny , torturing myself into a state of

fever trying to raise small sums of money . I would have been well a 86

T 2 2 A SHOR NOTE of three lines refusing to act as best man . £ / E A FRAGM NT of five lines . You will be glad to hear my catalogue is a ’ great success they have recognised my hand , of course I couldn t help it— everybody talks of it it is a masterpiece , though I say it myself

L T A E E D ’ A IS OF N M S OF FRI N S in Wilde s hand , apparently the names of

those who were to have presentation copies of one of his books , probably Ball d Re n T L a Qf adi g Gaol . here is a short list headed arge and a larger

list headed Small Among the former are Robbie [Ross] , Reggie T B L A D L [ urner] , osie [ ord lfred ouglas] . Among the latter ewis Waller , ’ O S u lliv an E D w T Vincent , rnest o son , Frankie [Harris] , oulouse L . 8v o . autrec , André Gide , etc I p .

N LETTE L FRAGME T OF THE DRAFT OF A R , probably written to ady Wilde from - w . Italy , ith several marginal sketches , including an attempt at a self portrait 2 PP 8v 0

Th e letter describes an Italian island . What strikes one is extreme age— 85 the twisted broken writing in pain

such as Gustave Doré and loved to draw .

AN ORIGINAL PEN- AND- INK SKETCH of an open door or window probably intended to illustrate a letter written to Lady Wilde from Italy . Measures - 2 1 D . 3 x 3 ins . rawn in the top left hand corner of a foolscap sheet

A N N . . . ROSS (Robert) . E X T R E M E L Y I M P O R T A N T A N D I T E R E S T I N G A L S

. addressed to More Adey . 7 pp . 4to . , closely written . Undated Th h . e Written w ile Wilde was in prison , and describing a visit to him 1 0 italics represent passages underlined in the original . £ /

I went yesterday to Reading and met Sherard at Paddington . [He] seemed anxious that the third person in the railway carriage should n k ow on what mission we were bent . After lunch we walked to the prison . A polite warder escorted us to the usual hutch and locked us in .

T . We had to wait a considerable time . hen Oscar appeared He is

- much thinner and is now clean shaven , so that his emaciated condition is n more appare t . His face is dull brick colour (I fancy from working in the sun in the garden) , his eyes are horribly vacant . I noticed he had lost a n great deal of hair . He always had great qua tities of thick hair , but

there is now a bald patch on the crown . It is also streaked with white and T grey . h e remarkable part of the interview was that Oscar hardly

talked at all , except to ask if there was any chance of his being let out , w w an hat the attitude of the press and public would be , as to hether y of

the present govern ment would be favourably disposed towards him . T w us . He said he had nothing to say and anted to hear talk hat , as you Th e n il or a er. . He is not allowed e c know , is very unlike Oscar p p p i chaplain is a nice , kind fellow , but he only sees him for a few m nutes

once a m onth . P erhaps he will write to me or to his wife , but wishes to 88 Did h n rain l ht ? rom . we t i k his b seem ed a l ri hear f me Asked , g found Greek and Latin writers gave him a headache could only read a little , had read everything else in library several times . [When pressed by me several times to mention the sort of books he would like , he replied] ’ D P new Chaucer , prose translation of ante , ater s book (of which I had spoken) and some large volume of Elizabethan dramatist or dramatists ’

f . (all this extracted with di ficulty) Asked how he felt generally , he ’ - The treat m e cruell . said in a half aside low voice , y y I think he referred to I have onl been in his food . He added as if for the benefit of the warder , y ’ n rm r two a I a i fi a y d y s s ince ws at Reading . Asked if he had seen his wife

N . lately he said , o but believed she was coming soon He seemed to take no interest in literary or artistic news that we told him , but seemed o t talk to himself while we did so . He remained so silent that there were

not . several awkward pauses . I do think they treat him badly Of course , he does not get enough to eat for a person of his build , but I l firmly and honestly be ieve , apart from all prejudice , that he is simply wasting and pining away . I believe that any one who knew him at all in former days and who visited him for an hour as a purely scientific subject , as the result of hard labour on certain constitutions , would arrive at the same conclusion . Of course , he would have to conceal from Oscar that his visit was actuated by anything save friendly interest , other wise Oscar would hastily assume one of his hundred artificial manners which he has for every person and every occasion , even when broken as he E now. is ach person has his View as to what constitutes a decayed mind , but if I was asked about Oscar before a commission I should say that

confinement , apart from all labour or treatment , had made him tem porarily SILLY That is the mildest word that will describe my meaning . ‘ If asked whether he was going to die , it seems quite possible within the next few months , even if his constitution remained unimpaired . I ’ Should be less Stirprise d to hear of dear Oscar s death than of Aubrey B ’ eardsley s , and you know what he looks like . On coming into the courtyard of the prison the very civil warder whispered to us that the two men i n the middle were the governor and the doctor respectively I suddenly had to choose which I Should approach ” I decided to attack i the governor , drew out a card and sent the warder [w th] a polite message ’ requesting the favour of a few minutes conversation . Isaacson is a Jew , tall and not unlike the headmaster of a public school . He at first was haughty and impatient , but became quite polite and amiable after a few minutes . Of course , I got nothing out of him , but he impressed me ’ favourably . I told him I was anxious about Oscar s mental condition el ‘ and general h a th Isaacson replied , that every man over forty was something of a doctor and that he considered Oscar was doing as

. T well as could be expected ” hat naturally Oscar felt the imprisonment

W h o i . more than another man , had not had his education and way of l fe T hat if Oscar was ill we should be told of it , that he would see the doctor ’ every day if he liked , and every care was taken of him , etc . While we 89 ff f were talking the doctor was snu ling and shu fling about , making impatient

gestures . About thirty wretched convicts were scraping the walls of the courtyard and scrubbing the stone , and through an open door I saw the cause of the revolting stench that I noticed when I went to the prison , and it was worse on this occasion— great coils of tarred rope for making

into oakum . Signed Always yours devotedly, Robbie

ROSS (Robert) . A V E RY I M P O R T A N T L E T T E R of the greatest interest , being P probably the last written to Wilde before his death in aris . It is dated ’

2 1 00 . N . (in Millard s hand) , 7 November 9 Wilde died on the 3oth ovember

o . It is extremely unlikely that he ever saw this letter . 2 pp . 8v He tells Wilde his expected movements (he was interrupted in a ’ foreign tour with his mother to attend Wilde s funeral) . I hope that with the new century Frank Harris is going to turn over— at least a new cheque in your favour , and I somehow feel that if you had ever known my undistinguished uncle , an Angel in the Irvingite Church you

would , in Spite of this disadvantage , have felt very much as you do now . T Seriously , you must not get too depressed . hings are sure to come right ,

and remember , violent letters , though justifiable in every way , are of no

use in the present case . Signed , Always your devoted Robbie

ROSS (Robert) . T H E O R I G I N A L T Y P E S C R I P T , with numerous corrections ’ in the author s hand , of a speech which he made at the dinner given in D 1 08 his honour at the Ritz Hotel , ecember 9 , on the occasion of the ’ publication of Methuen s first collected edition of the works . Also a

6 . . printed plan of the tables showing those present . pp 4to

An interesting and amusing speech , which has not been published . E A T N . A . L . s . . . . d 2 . UR R (Reginald) pp 4to , closely written Undated

dressed to Millard . ’ Referring to the date of Wilde s release from prison . States that he has found a telegram from Wilde to Ross which unquestionably dates ’ Wilde s release . He gives the text of the telegram , and discusses the history

of the D e P rofundis manuscript in a very interesting way . Mentions ’ Wilde s visit to Naples in 1 89 7 and says that an Italian friend of his is con v inced that he has bought the villa in which Wilde lived there . He says he is thinking of having Wilde ’ s letters to him typewritten and of sending

not n . a copy to Millard , for publicatio He also thinks of writing his ’ account of Wilde s last days , As I have my diary of that year and was the only person with him the last week of his life T N . . . . 1 8 1 MA URI (C A L S dated 9 , addressed to Henry Colburn , the

publisher , sending extracts from three acts of a play and advising him not

. 8v 0 . to include them in his magazine . I p £3/3l ’ Maturin was Wilde s great - uncle and the author of the novel M elmoth the Wanderer from which Wilde took his pseudonym , Sebastian Melmoth ,

after his release from prison . 90

your many acts of kindness and courtesy and was one of those who devoutly ” hoped that misfortune would not submerge you .

N 1 880 . (2 ) F R O M G E E V I E V E W A R D . Saying that she has read era V and would like to tell Wilde what she thinks about it .

(3) F R O M S O M E O N E S I G N I N G D O C Dated 1 8 78 . To My B dearest Oscar sending him back his overcoat . y the time you might ” have recollected it its fashion might have changed . Referring to the possibility of his brother Willie ’ s becoming Lord Chancellor and to Wilde E himself becoming a cardinal . While Your minence is preparing to fit the red hat on your sacred head Ma asks why I did not go down to inn u m er hear you read your Newdigate poem , but when I thought of the able other and more importan t demands on your time and attention I got ”

o . fairly cowed . 4 pp . 8v K (4) F R O M E . K . S P E E D , a reputed descendant of eats . Written from ’ n Louisville . Referri g to Wilde s visit and her pleasure in showing him K ’ . 8v o . the manuscripts of eats poetry . 4 pp

L E LLE T F A L . S . ARG CO C ION O . addressed to Wilde during his lecture

1 88 2 . tour in Canada and the United States , 1 () A U T O G R A P H L E T T E R from W . F . Morse , addressed from New ’ Oscar Wilde s Lecture Tour in Am erica 1 88 2 York , on notepaper headed , , K etc . Addressed to Wilde announcing arrangements for lectures in ansas i n l 60 City and Ca ifornia , the terms per cent of the gross takings with a n 2 00 mi imum guarantee of dollars per night to be paid in advance , a nd Ten l . return fares for three to Ca ifornia lectures as a minimum , h ro li . t u eighteen at most In the event offailure , the return trip to be made g

I . . Canada . Asking him to Sign oo proofs of an etching of himself 4 pp

D . 8v o . 2 . . B . . 1 88 () L E T T E R to W F . Morse from G Ramsden ated 3 B ooking a passage from London to America . (3 ) M E M O R A N D U M O F ’

B . S D I R E C T I O N S in altimore , giving instructions who is to pay Mr Wilde expenses and What IS to be excepted . Stating that he IS to have good rooms ; n i n and I places where he must see callers to have private Sitt g rooms . Permitting him to have meals i n his room and agreei ng to fit up the stage

as he requires . Returns to be made after each lecture , and Wilde to

8v o . be permitted to draw money Whenever he desires . 4 pp . (4) A C O L L E C T I O N O F A U T O G R A P H L E T T E R S from friends and admirers , n - i cluding three from Uncle Sam 1 88 2 . Inviting him to Sight seeing New in York and discussing his lectures . One addressed to My dear ” C h arm i d es . N N (5) F R O M A C O R R E S P O D E T , giving details of Sarah ’

B 6 . . New 1 88 1 . ernhardt s reception in York , () F R O M W B F I T T S ex pressing his pleasure that Wilde will contribute to The North Am erican Re The ew v 8 v o . iew. 3 pp . (7 ) A L E T T E R addressed to the editor of N York Herald an , championing Wilde against attack made upon him in that n . . B . 8 2 8v o . 1 88 2 paper pp oston , () F R O M A B O S T O N A G E N T , i viting

1 . 1 . 8v o . him to compete in a literary competition . 885 p (9) F R O M 9 2 ’ Alv erston T H E E D I T O R O F T H E M I R R O R , , sending him his report of Wilde s

8v o . 1 88 . 1 0 . lecture . 33 pp . 4 ( ) F R O M C B E C K W I T H , introducing a

8 0 . 1 1 r 1 88 . 2 . v friend . Addressing Wilde as Che Maitre 4 pp ( ) L F R O M A C O R R E S P O N D E N T in St . ouis who says she is engaged in making an historical quilt and asking him for a scrap of one of his neckties as a T 88 2 . . 8v o . 1 2 1 contribution . 3 pp ( ) F R O M C O L U M B U S , hanking - 8v o . Wilde for a present of a book on Fret cutting and Carving . 2 pp . T (1 3) F R O M H E N RY A B B E Y . hanking him for a presentation copy of E 1 88 . . 8v o . 1 . . his poems . 2 2 pp (4) F R O M s W O O D nclosing manu f 1 8 1 . 8v o . 8 2 . script o his poem on Aestheticism . 2 pp (5) F R O M A ff ’ P O T T E R , sending Wilde a pair of vases as a tribute to the e ect of Wilde s

8v o . 1 6 n r l az 1 88 . 2 . lectures on the sale of u d e g ed pottery . 3 pp ( ) A C H A RM I N G L E T T E R F R O M A C H I L D to Whom Wilde had sent his photo

graph , describing games played with other boys and with his sister , asking Wilde to come again and promising to take him to the top of Bunker ’ s

8 o . 1 1 88 . 1 . v Hill and to recite a poem for him . 2 3 pp (7) F R O M E W E L L E R 1 2 0 A j , acknowledging the receipt of dollars in payment for

88 . . o 1 . . 1 2 v 8 a pin 2 pp 8 . ( ) A D I S A G R E E A B L E L E T T E R from A Forbes , attacking Wilde for going to America and stating that his aim is

purely mercenary, and threatening to print the whole correspondence in

New . . . 1 a York paper 3 pp 8v o . 1 88 2 (9) F R O M T H E P R I N C I P A L O F T H E L A K E V I E W H I G H S C H O O L . Asking Wilde to address the pupils .

2 . . 2 0 pp 4to ( ) F R O M A M A N who attended his lecture , saying that Wilde teaches a gospel which will have a better effect than the foundation of ”

. 2 . v o 2 1 N a cotton factory pp 8 . ( ) U M E R O U S O T H E R L E T T E R S from persons attending his lectures and people asking him to contribute to

- . . ffi . o ce symposia , etc , etc , etc , also box statements and returns on the tour A Wom an o Im or in Canada of of N p tance.

0 T P LETTE A COLLECTION OF 5 AU OGRA H RS addressed to Oscar Wilde , of — . 1 8 6 I o various dates 7 98 . £7/ /

1 . L () F R O M D H U N T E R B L A I R . Addressed from ondon . in Saying he is com g up to Oxford for a . couple of days , inviting himself

8 o . to dinner in Hall and saying he is going to Rome . 3 pp . v (2 ) F R O M j. E . C . B O D L E Y . Commiserating with Wilde on the death of his

. . o N . 1 880 . n father 4 pp small 8v . (3 ) F R O M E D M U D Y A T E S Sayi g ’

1 . 8v o . he would like to use a poem of Wilde s in The World . p (4)

. . 1 F R O M L M O N T E F I O R E 8 78 . Congratulating him on Winning the

. 8 1 . v o . Newdigate p (5 ) F R O M s . F L E T C H E R . On the same . i P 6 . Ask ng Wilde to tell ater of their arrival in Oxford . () F R O M T H E R E V

. . 1 8 8 . H S B A R D E N , 7 A pious letter , referring to an interview with Wilde at which Wilde apparently unburdened himself to this priest . Urging T him to become a Catholic , and inviting him to another talk on hursday . Th e letter closes In the meantime pray hard and talk little 4 pp . 8 v o . N n . . G . t The (7) , A M“A U S C R I P T P O E M undated , sig ed C F enti led Green D o r T o o i . 8 , Oscar W lde 3 pp . 4to () F R O M C L A I R E D E 9 3 z P R A T . . 8v o . Conveying an invitation Undated . 2 pp . (9) A N O T E

N . 1 0 F R O M C H A R L E S WY D H A M on an envelope Undated . ( ) A M A N U ue ues s onnets our le S C R I P T P O E M by Michael Roba in French . Q lq p

8v o . 1 1 N m aitre. 1 8 . 2 . stanzas“ pp ( ) A O T H E R P O E M from the same

a u 1 6 . . hand , but signed Jean Michael maitre stanzas In French

1 2 . 1 88 . . 8v o . 1 ( ) F R O M E D W I N L E V Y 3 Asking to see him 1 p . (3 )

. . 1 882 . F R O M F L B E N E D I C T , addressed from New York , Sending one

of his books , and promising to send others decently bound 4 pp .

8 o . 1 v (4) F R O M E L S I E D E W O L F E . Referring to his idea for a P new play , and to the treatment of the American Girl in it . roposing to ’ produce this play in Chicago next year at Hooley s Theatre . Stressing

the advantages of her doing the play , mentioning other plays that she has

Sh e . done . Saying can pay no advance . Criticizing the American drama

8v o . 1 1 8 . 7 pp . (5 ) A N A M U S I N G L E T T E R FR O M F . G I L E S . 95 Asking for seats for An Ideal Hus band on the ground that his father was coachman ’ to Wilde s father- in - law and drove Wilde and his wife on their wedding

. 2 . 8v o . 1 6 . day pp ( ) T o M R S W I L D E , regretting inability to accept an

L 1 88 . 1 . . . D invitation . (7) F R O M T w A P P L E T O N ated from ondon , 4 Making suggestions for producing a play and complaining that he is short

of capital . Asking Wilde to lend him two or three pounds to enable him i . . 8v o . 1 8 . . 1 8 2 . to do it 4 pp ( ) F R O M T S E RR A O Rome , 9 Ask ng for ’

Lad n er 1 . . 1 the manuscript of y Wi d m ere s Fan for translation . p 4to (9) R . . . osb u r . 1 8 0 . F R O M A H P I C K E R I N G y, Mass , 9 Congratulating him on D orian Gray and asking him What was the book Lord Harry lent Dorian . A k nowled 8 o . 0 1 0 . c . 8 3 pp v (2 ) F R O M T H E A L B E M A R L E C L U B . 9 g

1 . 8v o . 2 1 ing the receipt of his subscription . 3 pp ( ) F R O M T H E S E C R E T A RY O F T H E P E N A N D P E N C I L C L U B , asking to have the

2 . pleasure of entertaining him as the guest of the club . Undated . pp

8v o . 2 . 1 8 . D (2 ) S I G N A T U R E I L L E G I B L E . 77 iscussing Greek verse 3 3

. 8v o . 2 . pp (3 ) F R O M A G N E S S E YM O U R . Undated Inviting him to

1 8 v o . . . . . 2 meet some friends p (4) F R O M j E R O G E R S , asking him to

1 . 8v o . 2 send back a scenario and some books . Undated . p (5 ) F R O M

1 88 . 1 . S T . C L A I R B A D D E L E Y . Asking for the return of some books . 3 p

8v o . 6 0 D 2 P 1 8 8 . ( ) F R O M . D . N I C H O L S O N . alermo , 9 etailing his move

. i ments in Italy (2 7) F R O M A . L . R O B E R T S . Invit ng him to stay and Um anticipating seeing his name in the Honours List at the university .

. 8 o . . v 2 8 dated 4 pp small ( ) A M A N U S C R I P T P O E M , 4 stanzas , by ’ Ernest Lajeunesse . (2 9) A S O L I C I T O R S L E T T E R asking for the payment

. 1 1 . o . . 1 . . of an account 894 . p 8v (30 ) F R O M R F R E N C H Hoping

D 1 . . 8 o . to meet him in ublin . Undated . 3 pp . v (3 ) F R O M N A D E

8v o . 2 1 8 . . . I . B O V E Y . 94 In French Inviting him to tea p (3 )

. 1 8 . F R O M H P . C O L S O N . 94 Asking him to get the writer appointed

8v o . T . musical director of the Haymarket heatre . 3 pp (33) F R O M

. 1 . 0 D . L U C A S . 894 Asking his Opinion of the proposed reform of the

8 . L . R . . 1 8v o . House of ords 2 pp . (34) F R O M D E C O R D O V A 94

8v o . . n . Asking him for a part in his ew play . 2 pp (35) F R O M E 94

P . . 8v o . aris , and begging him to write 3 3 pp (5 ) F R O M W . T U R R E T

D . . T I N I . ated from Haute Savoie In French Regretting having to leave Berneval and expressing delight at the prospect of meeting Wilde

P . again in aris Recommending Wilde to read Schopenhauer . 4 pp . 8v o .

6 . . . . i s () F R O M C A C P O N S O N B Y An amusing letter , saying he leaving L P i ondon to morrow but returning for the Grand rix , and ment oning

8v o . various racing matters . 3 pp . (7) S I G N A T U R E I L L E G I B L E . From

T n 1 8 8 . . aormi a , 9 In French Asking for a thousand lira to pay expenses

n 8 o . 8 . I N D E N A T . 1 . C to u is p v () F R O M H V A N D E R . ddressed from E ’ 1 00 . ff . Rotterdam , 9 In indi erent nglish Saying he has read Wilde s works with appreciation and asking for his photograph . 4 pp . 8v o .

(9) F O U R L E T T E R S F R O M K YR L E B E L L E W . Addressed to My dear ” L 1 8 : a i n Oscar from ondon in 99 () Asking him to collaborate a play . all nearl w I have done it , y , but it ants the brilliance of your brains to

t . T k L rea . 8v o . make it g al ing about his great success in ondon 2 pp . (b) Promising to send the typescript of the first act of his play and sayin g B e u B ru e a mm ll . 2 . v he would like to collaborate with Wilde in pp 8 o . c () Sending the Sketch of Act 3 , mentioning the possibility of his coming - 8 o . d . k to Paris . 2 pp . v () Sending Wilde a bank note As ing Wilde to

8 o . 1 0 . U B . 1 . v meet him at oulogne 3 pp ( ) F R O M w M . F L L E R T O N .

P 1 8 . Addressed from aris , 99 Commencing Monsieur Melmoth A i pathetic letter , refusing with extreme pol teness and reluctance a request - E D 8v o . 1 1 . . C P O C . . v . . . e for a loan 4 pp ( ) F R O M A F L U N E , A not excusing himself to Monsieur Melmoth for not keeping an appoint ’ L n - P é S alome. u e o ment . Hoping to meet the author of g was the first ’ Salom e P man to present on the stage , which he did in aris while Wilde was 1 2 in prison . ( ) A D D R E S S E D T o M O N S I E U R M E L M O T H asking for the n 1 address of one of his frie ds . (3 ) F R O M A F R I E N D , sending him a The D ail 8v o . 1 drawing . 2 3 pp . (4) F R O M T HE P A R I S E D I T O R of y ’

1 00 . i Chronicle. 9 Ask ng for an appointment to discuss Wilde s new

M r. and M rs . D avent 1 . 1 . . . 8v o play, ry p . (5) F R O M M R S P O T T E R

1 0 0 . 9 Asking when she is to receive his new play, and saying how patient h 1 6 S e has been in the matter . ( ) T w o L E T T E R S written on behalf of E 8v o . 1 00 . 1 . Ada Rehan , the actress , urging the repayment of £ ach p 1 Du oirier (7 ) F R O M T H E H O T E L I E R I N P A R I S , M . p , in whose hotel Wilde died . One asking for payment of a bill , the other“mentioning that some one had called to see him , both addressed to Monsieur Melmoth 1 8 N ( ) F R O M A F R I E D , asking him to come and s“tay with him at Gland 1 3 3 pp. 8v o . (9) T H R E E B I L L S made out to Monsieur Melmoth

D . n 1 . 2 0 two i Naples and one in ieppe . 89 7 ( ) F R O M A C A B A R E T I E R ’ ’ 3 i n n Referring to Frank Harris pay g part of Wilde s bill , and aski g for pay N G ment of the rest of it . 2 pp . 8v o . (2 1 ) A V E RY A F F E C T I L E T T E R ’

D 2 1 8 . from an Irish lady to a very close friend of Wilde s . ated April 4 , 95 Saying that Sh e was brought up with Wilde and played with him as a child , and expressing her sympathy and confidence to Wilde at the time

. 2 . 2 2 . . o H N S O N . of his trial 3 pp 8v o . ( ) F R O M H H j T O R O B E R T R o s s ’

L o . . 8v 1 1 0 . for . 2 Cairo , 9 Asking some letters of ady Wilde s pp

2 . P i 1 0 . T (3) F R O M A N N A D E B R E M O N T T O R O B E R T R o s s ar s , 9 5 hank De P r undis ing Ross for sending her of , which she thinks a wonderful book , and saying she made a little pilgrimage in honour of Wilde when she

received it . Asks if it has been translated into French , and says it is selling ’

P . very well in English in aris . Mentions the fund for Wilde s monument

8v o . 2 T o . . 4 pp . (4) R O B E R T R O S S F R O M D R W I L L I A M S O N Asking permission to use one of Wilde ’ s sonnets in a book he is doing on Keats ’

. 8v o . 2 T o manuscripts (the Keats Memorial Volume) . 2 pp (5) R O B E R T ’ o R s s , quoting a long letter from Frank Harris giving an account of Wilde s

8 o . 6 . . v 2 death , the state of his finances at that time , etc 3 pp ( ) F R O M

88 . T o . 1 C L A R I C E M O O R E L A D Y W I L D E Rome , 3 Suggesting that Wilde Z should visit her in Rome . (2 7) T O L A D Y W I L D E F R O M W . J. F I T T Ave Im eratrix P A T R I C K . hanking her for a copy of p by Wilde , quoting

from it, and congratulating her on being the mother of two such gifted

8 . . 1 88 . . 8v o . 2 sons . 4 pp ( ) T O M R S W I L D E 4 Asking her if Wilde 2 T o will pay a visit while he is in Edinburgh giving lectures . (9) R O B E R T k D 1 00 . R o s s F R O M T H E F A M I L Y S O L I C I T O R . ated 9 As ing whether ’ Wilde s illness is serious , what is the cause of it , whether he is likely to die , 0 and if so , stating that the family would like to arrange the funeral . (3 )

T o . . M I L L A R D F R O M F R A N K H A R R I S A typed letter , signed

FOLDER containing a mass of correspondence between l\/fi llard and American booksellers , publishers , etc . , with reference to the compilation ’ of Stuart Mason s compendious bibliography of Wilde . When one sees the care and detail with which Millard verified the smallest and obscurest

mention of Wilde , and the elaborate precautions he took to compare

various editions , the wonder is not that the compilation of the bibliography

occupied ten years , but that it was possible ever to complete it at all .

- Many interesting facts transpire which , being non bibliographical , were 6 not used . I o/ E i Also included are two A . L . S . (one in French and one in ngl sh) ’ d Hu m iéres from R . to Ross, referring to French rights of translation .

A FOLDER containing correspondence and Copies of letters referring mainly ’ to the confiscation of pirated editions of Wilde s works . Also a letter from ’ n a solicitor giving counsel s Opi ion , and a printed circular issued to the book The Re B . vue leue Aozit 1 1 T trade A copy of , , 9 7 , with an article on ree by

Ross . 5/

KE LL . ” 8 o . . v Y (R J ) A closely written 4 pp , and another to him ,

referring entirely to obscure genealogical details of the Wilde family .

1 9 1 4 .

A STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT made out to Wilde in January 1 8 7 2 for - . On 1 pocket money , food , books and various other school expenses 3 ’ folI O n I O Sheets of blue accou tant s paper . ] H L . P INY S E L E C T E D L E T T E R S . With notes for the use of schools by the late

E . P E B n P . 8v o . 1 8 2 . C richard and . R . er ard . ost Oxford 7 ’ ’ - With Wilde s autograph and the date , May 74, on the title page . L T D n A atin text used by him at rinity College , ublin , at the age of twe ty . - It has copious notes in his hand throughout , and on the end papers and fl l eav es . y , and one or two small sketches in his hand

TE BE E L . AF R RN VA L E T T E R S T o R O B E R T R o s s . With woodcuts in

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the printer, and with an extra suite of the woodcuts in black .

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T . in black , signed by the artist and the printer . his is for C Millard Loosely inserted is a fine original pen - and - ink drawing of the interior of

n 1 2 2 . Readi g Gaol by Randolph Schwabe , dated 9

Horn. a Another copy, one of 75 numbered copies on jp vellum , Signed

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Iaem . One of 400 numbered copies on handmade paper . ’

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TE E D . TE BE . o . N . 8v AF R R A I G AF R RNEVAL . 2 vols Original wrappers

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Th e 2 . American copyright issue , of which only 3 copies were printed ’ Th e text is considerably less expurgated than Beaumont s . One volume B i . precedes eaumont , the other is publ shed later TE E D AF R R A ING . AM E R I C A N I S S U E . A set of corrected galley proofs of w 2 the first volume , of hich only 3 copies were printed for copyright ’ T n B . i purposes his volume contains all the letters eaumont s edition ,

but they are here printed much more fully, and some are included which ’ B 1 1 were omitted from eaumont s edition . J{ 5/ 5/ P Also included is a long correspondence between Millard and aul R . ’ Reynolds , the New York publisher, the long correspondence from Wilde s

son concerning deletions , alterations , and corrections in the preparation of

himself to be persuaded into contributing to this rather puerile publication . ’ Phrases ana Philosophies for the Use of the Young appeared here for the first Th e The Pries t and the Acol te time . magazine also contained y , a slightly poisonous production with which Q ueensberry ’ s counsel made great play D ’ . i at the trial espite Wilde s ind gnant denials , counsel succeeded in planting damaging innuendoes in the minds of the jury by continual

reference to this magazine , and especially to the particular story which is

t . s ill generally, though wrongly , considered to be by Wilde One hundred

numbered copies of the magazine were printed on handmade paper, and f copies are now very di ficult to obtain , especially in new condition like

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D E PR O FUN D I S

By OSCAR WILDE

NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED BY HIS LITERARY EX E CUTOR ROBERT ROS S

R REYNOLDS PAUL .

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T . the present edition were printed . his copy is as new in the slip case

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L E T E D Half b u ck ram . N D C E D I T I O N . 8v o . T (S . M . 447 . his IS an important first edition , including many items I n never before printed book form , and some here published for the first

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P . C . s . B and a from Mr . urdett dis cussing the preface and the illus t ra tions Th e at some length . book

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S . M . n ( Heavily corrected proofs , with marginal notes , eme da n tio s , and additions in the hands of Millard and of Ross , a T . L . S . from Ross n to Millard i serted , MS . copies of extra poems , etc . T his volume is an important first edition , containing , as it does ,

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T - POE P E . B P 1 74 MS IN ROS ranslated into French by Georges azile . ortrait

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I n . . 2 . . . . E (Not S M ) With a pp A L s from the translator , in nglish , m pro ising to send this book and another , and asking for books on Wilde

and permission to translate them .

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1 DD . 77 RO (Rennell) . R O S E L E A F A N D A P P L E L E A F With an introduction P P . 8 o . . by Oscar Wilde F I R S T E D I T I O N . ost v Very fine copy hila

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th e 1 79 ROSS (Robert) . A collection of the corrected proofs of his prefaces to B n second collected edition of the Works . ound in one volume in gree ’ cloth uniform with Methuen s binding for that edition . J53/3/ h M . Th t e (Not in S . ) e collection consists of a corrected proof of P i Lord Arthur D uchess o P adua rospectus for this edition , prel ms . of and f , Lad indermere Wom an o o Im . Poems W N preface to the latter , prelims of , y , f ortance Ideal Hus band Im ortance o B ein E arnes t Pome ranates p , , p f g , g , I nten De P r D Ess a s and tions o undis . e , and f Also the prefaces to to y ’ L Lect re al e All . e u s S om . , and to the proofs are very heavily corrected arg

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where this fragment was first published from the original manuscript . P 1 L E. . . 8 . 1 8 1 SA OM F I R S T E D I T I O N Wrappers aris , 93 j£7/ M L I Th 8 W . . . e 6 S . . 00 T ( 34 , ) edition consisted of copies . his is

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1 8 . 2 0 Aubrey Beardsley . 94 £ /

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S . M . P L t ( roofs of ane s edi ion , with Stuart Mason s autograph - and the large book plate .

Idem . 1 . B . 1 1 0 . 2 mo oards With cover design by Charles Ricketts . 9 - M . (S . With the large book plate .

Idem . 1 1 Reprint of the above . 9 8 .

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T B . P . 8v o . T o . 1 0 . O M . J ost w leaves May 9 2 M T (Not in S . . ) An unpublished poem . his is its first appearance - fi e in print . Sixty v numbered copies were privately printed for Stuart

Mason .

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1 0 6 . F I RS T E D I T I O N . Small 4to . Wrappers torn . 9 M . d . S . 00 rm te ( One of 4 copies , privately p E O LDE LE D . SCAR WI CA N AR . With some unrecorded sayings dited by

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2 1 I . dem . M . S I A Corrected proof, with C . S . initials and the date on the wrapper

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S . M ( . 0 . 2 1 2 Idem . . . 1 1 Half leather Wrappers , bound in 9 ’

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M . (S . One of 50 specially bound copies on large handmade

. No . paper (See illustration XV , this page . ) 1 2 ’ LD E I . . . . Nos . 1 2 WOMAN S WOR dited by Oscar Wilde Vol , and , and — . 1 8 1 Vol . II . complete . 4to Wrappers and cloth . [ 88] 889 . £ 1 / M S . . 2 2 8 2 8 2 ( 7 7 , 7 and Contains numerous and extensive

i 1 08 . material by Wilde , most of which was not reprinted unt l 9

’ PLETE O K METHUEN S SECOND COLLECTED EDITION OF THE COM W R S , in 1 — seventeen volumes . 90 9 2 3 .

- Unless otherwise mentioned , all volumes have the large book plate l ’ . lVIil ard S and are as new, in original wrappers Most volumes have initials ’ Lor Arthur . 1 d Savile s Cri and a Short bibliographical note in his hand () me.

S . M . 8 1 The D uchess o P adua . ( 4 (2 ) f With a new preface by Robert Ross .

S . M . . P oems . . M ( Several pencil notes by Millard (3 ) (S . L This volume contains two poems first printed from MSS . oosely inserted ’ a b i are () a prospectus of this edition , () a sl p with the editor s compliments , ’ l Lad n er er c m . Wi d m e s Fan. S . M () a proof of the pre i inary pages (4) y ( .

- Two dust wrappers on different coloured papers . (5) A Wom an o I c M NO - 6 An I e l r S . . . d a Hus band . f No mpo tan e. ( book plate ()

S . M I ortan e o B ein E rne t . M . T The m c a s S . W O ( . (7) p f g ( dust ff A House P om e ranat . e . M . wrappers on di erent coloured paper (8) of g s (S .

- T . I ntent ions . hree dust wrappers , showing slight variations (9)

M . 1 D ro undis . S . M . T (S . (0 ) e P f ( his edition includes con Two - sid erab l e material not in the first edition . dust wrappers Showing M 1 1 E s a s and Lectures . S . . slight variation . ( ) s y ( In this volume the essay The Ris e of His torical Criticism is published all in one volume for the

L . . . . . first time . oosely inserted is an A L S to Robert Ross from W A Gibb , ’ al e L calling attention to certain typographical errors . (I 2 ) S om ; a M T r S . . Sainte Courtis ane ; A Flo entine Tragedy. ( his also contains ’ ’ Walter Ledger s bibliography of 45 different editions of Salom e in various

n . 1 The Picture o D orian la guages . Numerous pencil notes by Millard (3) f ’ M n P r S . . G ay . ( Issued by Carringto of aris uniform with Methuen s

L . . edition . oosely inserted is an A . C . S from Carrington to Robert ROSS A r n P ll a M n 1 l . C itic i a M l . S . (4) ( A first editio , in book form , of ’ — Th e The Pall M all Ga ette 1 88 0 . Wilde s reviews in z , 5 9 selection was made

E . . L A . N . S . by Mr . V ucas , a brief from whom , addressed to Robert ROSS , M P t 1 Sele ted Pros e. S . . is loosely inserted . (5) c (Not in ) resenta ion copy T two from Ross to Millard . his contains unpublished letters to Robert - 1 Art and T . 6 Ross . hree dust wrappers Showing slight variations ( )

L T . L . S . D ecor tion. a M . (Not in S . ) oosely inserted is a from Millard to - the publisher , pointing out that about two thirds of this volume is already

1 For Love o the Kin . included in another volume of this edition . (7) f g

M . (Not in S . ) Millard strenuously protested that this was not written by Wilde . In this copy he has noted a few reasons for his contention . No - book plate .

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2 2 0 T L E 1 6 T . 1 8 B A PRICED CA A OGU of the sale at ite St in April 95 , y order of the Sheriff P ’ ursuant to Wilde s bankruptcy after his conviction , his possessions

were sold by auction , and this is the catalogue , interleaved , priced in ink ,

with the names of some of the purchasers , and bound in half leather , with ’ - Millard s large book plate . Many of the prices make curious reading a

P rince L . P L L . P . Ha . ad Winderm ere large paper ppy , two copies of y , three ' copies of The Sphinx and two copies of Salome realised together A K parcel of MSS . sold for and a MS . poem by eats , with various ’ other things , brought Various cuttings from booksellers cata

i n i n . lognes , which some of the items were subsequently listed , are pasted

’ 2 2 1 CATAL OGUE of Sotheby s sale of important Wilde MS . and letters . With B . B . prices and buyers 4to . oards , with ibliography label Wrappers ,

2 1 1 1 . bound in . July 7 , 9

Dorian Gra an d The S hinx. With facsimiles of parts of the MSS . of y of p 2 2 2 REVIEWS AND CORRESPONDENCE on the first appearance of D e P ro Two undis . f thick quarto volumes , bound in half brown morocco , with

the reviews pasted on separate sheets of handmade paper , one side ofthe

1 . paper only being used throughout . 90 5 J65/5/ Th e reviews vary from a single - line notice to an essay extending to T . 2 0 several pages hey cover about 3 pages in the two volumes , and a mere list of the periodicals in which they occur would cover several pages Th e of this catalogue . most important and lengthy reviews are signed by

B L D . L Max eerbohm , Cunninghame Graham , ord Alfred ouglas , G owes

L . D . ickinson , Arthur Symons , John Oliver Hobbes , W Courtney, and T Professor Hugh Walker . erritorially they extend almost literally from ’ ’ L End ff and s to John o Groats , While the types of periodical are as di erent as The M ornin P os t The Clarion The Freethinker The Guardian g and , as and , as The Church Tim es The Chris tian World The World o D ress The and , and as f and

Crank .

B M S . esides the reviews there are various facsimiles of the original , of

- . L title pages , etc , a few notes by Walter edger and Robert Ross , and a

- typed index to the collection . Small book plate . A LARGE OCTAVO VOLUME OF MISCELLANEOUS PRESS GUTTINGS from 1 895 to 1 1 9 3 , including interviews with Wilde , early reviews of his plays , facsimiles

- D . of manuscripts , accounts of the ouglas Ransome trial , portraits of Mrs B 1 Wilde , interviews with eardsley, etc . , etc . ,g; I /

TT . A THICK SMALL QUARTO VOLUME (half roan , back broken) OF CU INGS — 1 0 1 895 1 90 8 . J0 / /

- L G alliene (Large book plate . ) Correspondence between Ross and e on ’ a pirated edition published under the latter s auspices . Auction records . L Reviews of the ives by Sherard and Ingleby . Articles on Wilde ; reviews of books and plays and copious reviews of Methuen ’ s first collected

edition . Reports that Wilde is not dead . Accounts of the dinner to Ross ’ Th au lo s at the Savoy . An essay on Fritz w association with Wilde at

Dieppe . TT N 2 2 A QUARTO ALBUM OF MISCELLANEOUS CU I GS , mostly reviews of books , 4 — 1 0 8 . plays , etc . , 9 7

P E 2 2 A LARGE QUARTO VOLUME (half roan , back broken) , CONTAINING R SS 5 — EXTRACTS from 1 89 1 1 90 7 . J£2 /I o/

Includes a typed letter from R . H . Sherard to Millard , a typed list of ’

M . E G . Wilde s contributions to the P . arly interviews and reviews of the

B allad o Readin Gaol . anonymous f g Accounts of his last days and death , by R . H . Sherard , Robert Ross , etc . ; Accounts of the attack on and withdrawal ’ ’ m S alom e P of Fre st ad t s production of in NewYork . ictures of the first The D uchess o P adua D e Pro undis production (German) of f ; reviews of f , by ’ ’ lom e D Sa . Frank Harris , etc . , and of the first production of Strauss in resden - Small book plate . P E TT N L 2 2 6 A LARGE QUARTO ALBUM OF R SS CU I GS , including articles by ord D T Alfred ouglas , Arthur Symons , Robert Ross , Reggie urner and Frank Harris . ' of Salome Includes reviews plays , especially of , of which there is an

illustrated supplement of various actresses in the leading part , and of the

revival of A Wom an of No Importance. ’ Of Os car Wilde a Stud 2 2 A dummy copy Mason s , y, into which has been pasted a 7 ’ large collection of cuttings all referring to Stuart Mason s books on Wilde . 1 — 905 2 7 . L - arge book plate .

Circa 1 8 small folio volume containing mostly early references to Wilde . ( 79 2 2 8

1 8 0 . 9 , but also a few later ones about Cloth B Li e and Letters Includes iographical notice in f , reviews on the first ll ec D orian Gra The Soul o M an P oem s 1 88 1 . co appearance of y , f , , , etc A large

tion of cartoons , articles , etc . , from illustrated papers guying the aesthetic fl movement, with Wilde and his sun ower as the central figure , and including 1 88 - a cartoon , in 3 , of Wilde as a convict ; a two column interview with

Wilde , by Robert Ross ; contemporary notices of lectures in Chelsea and in Piccadilly on the English Renaissance ; poems and witticisms in 1 8 79 ” 1 8 0 The Scots by a rising young poet a long correspondence , in 9 , in Observer Whib le Art and , between Wilde and Charles y on the subject of ’ M orali D 1 0 ty. A playbill of the first production (in resden , 9 5) of Strauss ' Sal ome 1 0 . . , and a programme of the same in Cologne , 9 7 , etc , etc Much of

this material has never been reprinted and is now unobtainable .

2 2 A LARGE QUARTO VOLUME (half roan , back a little broken) , mostly concerned 9 ’ Circa 2 2 with the aesthetic movement of the eighties . ( 76 / /

The Aes thetic Formerly in the possession of Walter Hamilton , author of - M ovem ent n E n l . i and . g , etc , with his armorial book plate Th e - m A . L . s . . . . contents include . from J W Gilbart S ith and R H 1 2 1 Ph illim ore P ; unch cartoons , with several of Wilde ; Herbert Campbell as the Jumbo Aesthete programme of The Aes thetic Q uadrilles ; a proof pull of i ’ a long art cle on Wilde , and a large collection of reviews of Hamilton s book ,

mostly mentioning Wilde , to whom he devotes a chapter .

’ A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN NUMBERS of Pemberton - Billing s war - time periodi i The Vi ilante 2 1 1 8 . cal , g , March 3 to August 3 , 9 Contain ng verbatim ’ reports of the Maud Allan libel action On Pemberton - Billing s references ’

1 1 8 . to Salome. Folio . 9 £I /I O/ ' S alom e ad nauseam B In this trial was discussed , and the notorious lack - Book made its furtive non appearance .

P TE P E . A LARGE COLLECTION of OS RS , ROGRAMM S , etc , of various pro ’

d u ctions . of Wilde s plays , recitals of his poems , concerts of his songs , etc

’ Including a portrait poster and two others of L ou - Tell egen s pro duction of D orian Gray ; Russian posters of the Chauve Souris Theatre in ’ 1 1 e ebel Es asita D Moscow, 9 4 , jz , with music by p , and of the Moscow ramatic T 1 1 Im ortance o B ein E arnes t E heatre , 9 5 , of p f g , billed without the nglish - T L ki title as a light hearted comedy for serious people . ranslated by y ’ ard ou pu lo of Tree s production of A Woman of No Importance in 1 900 ; ’ in D P a ua 1 m at ee The uchess o d 0 . Alexander s of f , 9 7 Also a plan of Chelsea T own Hall , with the prospectus for the competition , including a panel of

Wilde . P i An Ideal Hus band L rogrammes of the first product ons of , ewis Waller , 1 8 Lad Windermere 1 8 2 E arnes t 1 8 95 of y , Alexander , 9 of , Alexander , 95 ’ A Wom an o No Im ortance T 1 8 Salom e of f p , ree , 93 ; of (Strauss) , Covent 1 1 0 A Florentine Tra ed P 1 0 D orian Gra Garden , 9 ; of g y , rivate , 9 7 ; of y , L ou - T n ellegen , and of numerous other later productio s , concert perform

ances . . , etc , etc

P T E 1 8 2 1 8 . A WOMAN OF NO IM OR ANC . American production , 9 , 94 T O R E T U R N S Four from the Opera House , oronto , seven from the pera T P House , Harlem , and eight from the Walnut Street heatre , hiladelphia , ’ C o hlan s all returns being of Rose g tour . £I /I / L D WINDERM ERE ’ FA ’ A Y S N . F O U R W E E K L Y A C C O U N T S of Wilde s ’ ’ T royalties on George Alexander s production at the St . James s heatre in

1 89 2 .

Royalty at 5 per cent averages £45 a week .

THE P T E B o x - IM OR ANC OF BEING EARNEST . O F F I C E R E T U R N S ’ ’ from the St . James s Theatre of George Alexander s production from 1 1 8 2 2 February 4 to April 4 , 95 , and also weekly returns for February

8 1 0 00 . and March , the average weekly amount being about £ £ I /I /

2 E G L LE T — ’ 34 E T . 1 88 8 ...... N ISH C UR OUR 3 4 A L S from W F Morse , Wilde s agent , mentioning lectures at Wandsworth , Q ueenstown , Oxford , etc .

2 NO . 43 A N T H E L I F E O F O S C A R W I L D E A S P R O S E C U T O R A N D P R I S O N E R .

8v o . Cloth . Wrappers , bound in . ’

S . M . Old B ( Sold in the streets during Wilde s trial at the ailey . - L . Nowvery scarce . arge book plate

2 4 N . . B B . 4 A ON O S C A R W I L D E oards , with ibliography label E h Bio ra h and Re e S . M . T e vi w . . NO . 2 0 . ( xtracted from g p , Vol IV , ’ Th P 1 8 e essay has the words ublished 80 written in Wilde s own hand .

This is the earliest biographical notice of Wilde . Also bound in are (I ) ’

D . . O Dono h u e . . . 2 an A L S from the former owner , J g ; () an extract

Fact 2 1 1 880 n . from , August , , strongly criticizi g the above article 2 45 ANON . T H E P R I E S T A N D T H E A C O L Y T E . F I R S T E D I T I O N . Wrappers .

N . D . P M . . (Not in S . ) Wrongly attributed to Wilde rivately printed for

presentation only . 2 6 I 4 dem . With an introductory protest by Stuart Mason . First issue of this B N 8v 0 . . 1 0 . 1 edition . arrow oards 9 7 £ / M (S . . Wrongly attributed to Wilde . Much play was made Th e with this story at the trial . introduction in this copy is autographed of by Mason and has several notes in his hand . He has added the name - the real author on the title page .

2 AT D . B . T . 0 . . 47 ARISTOPHANES O . W . OXFOR y Y F I R S T E D I T I O N

o . . . Cr . 8v Wrappers Oxford

S . M . ( . With A L . S . from the publisher , giving the names of the

Th e . . L . authors . Rt Hon . S . Amery was one of them I 2 47A dem . Another copy . ’ P 8 E N . 2 B Z L . P d Hier O 8 . . 4 A I (Georges) O S C A R W I L D E . ortraits , 4 ortrait P T E D 8 o . . b ou nd in . F I R S I T I O N . v Cloth Wrappers aris

Not S . M . P ( in ) resentation copy from the author , with two long

A . L . S . from the author to Stuart Mason inserted . 2 E B Z L . . P 1 1 2 . 49 A I (Georges) O S C A R W I L D E . Folio aris , 9 P M . Com ozdia D 1 1 1 1 . Not S . 2 ( in ) In , ecember , 9 resentation copy from the author to Stuart Mason .

Idem . No 2 49A Another copy . inscription .

B Z LE . . P 1 1 . 2 0 . . 2 5 A I (Georges) S U R L E M A R B R E 4to Wrappers aris , 9 L Rout M . a e 1 No t S . ( in ) An essay on Wilde contained in , Mai 5 ,

L . 1 1 2 . . . 9 oosely inserted is an A L S from the author to Stuart Mason ,

referring to this and other reviews of Three Times Tried .

BEE B . b 2 5 1 R OHM (Max) A P E E P I N T O T H E P A S T . With coloured cartoons y A . . v o . S . . N . D . the author Roy 8 U .

M . (Not in S . . ) One of 300 copies on Jap vellum A fantastic account ’ b Of The YellowB ook not written in the nineties for the first num er , but included therein . I t professes to give a prophetic portrait of Wilde as a

solemn , domesticated old gentleman .

E D P B N Z (Ernest) . S O M E S T R A Y N O T E S on the ersonality and Writings of 2 5 2 L G Oteb er 1 1 0 . . 2 Oscar Wilde g, 9 () Notes on the iterary Relationship

P . 1 1 R O 2 . e between Walter ater and scar Wilde Helsingfors , 9 (3 ) P m iniscences of Matthew Arnold in the rose Writings of Oscar Wilde . ’

1 1 . E Helsingfors , 9 3 (4) Reviews of Jackson s ighteen Nineties and Stuart ’ ’ Mason s Bibliography (5) Review of Lord Alfred Douglas s 6 T Oscar Wilde and Myself. Gothenburg () A Modern ype of L Reviewer , and Frank Harris on Oscar Wilde . eipzig (7) A ’ ’ L 8 B propos de la Salome d Oscar Wilde . eipzig () George ernard 1 1 Shaw : Oscar Wilde in Memoriam . [Helsingfors] 9 2 . (In French . ) T L . S . . 1 0 (9) Several long A . from the author to Stuart Mason ( ) yped All copy of a letter from Stuart Mason to the author . bound together in E one volume , with most of the wrappers bound in . ach one has a presenta

tion inscription from the author to Stuart Mason . £5/ - M . L . (Not in S . ) arge book plate

BE D 2 N Z . P 8v o . O S C A R W I L D E , A R E T R O S P E C T . F I R S T E D I T I O N ost 53

. 1 2 1 . Wrappers Vienna , 9

M . (Not in S . ) B P B . or IRN AUM (Martin) . O S C A R W I L D E . Fragments and Memories 2 54 f 1 a P . E . K . . 8v o . 2 0 trait ter J. elly F I R S T E D I T I O N ost 9

M . (Not in S . )

I e d m . One of 50 numbered copies on large handmade paper . I dem . A set of advance sheets . Unbound .

’ B K E S L I H E F R UH S T E OC ( . O S C A R W I L D E S P E R O N C U N D L I T E R A R 2 5 7

B 1 1 . 8v o . . Z Z U . I S C H E B E I E H U N G E N W A L T E R P A T E R Cloth onn , 9 3

Not S . M . . . . ( in ) With three A L S from the author to Millard , dis ’ cussing the possibility of Pater s influence on textual alterations in D orian

B K O E F YE LD B . 1 88 1 . 8v 0 . A O O O ENGLISH FAYRE . oards M (Not in S . . ) Contains a caricature of Wilde .

LE D . E . Z . CO RI G (Hon . Stephen) . F I B U L E F I R S T E D I T I O N Fine copy I 1 889 . 5/ h P . T e re resentation copy, Signed , from the author to Wilde latter ’ viewed this author s D emetrius in The Pall M all Gazette under the title A Good His torical Novel .

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OR 1 . 6 C IAT E . 1 2 0 (I . T H E S A D I S M I N O S C A R W I L D E S S A L O M 9 4

I . . M . The P h n ic Review . . S . s c oa a t (Not in ) In y ly , Vol , No 3 CROSLAND (T . W . T H E F I R S T S T O N E . On Reading the Unpublished P B . . D e Pro undis . . 1 arts of f F I R S T E D I T I O N oards Fine copy 1 9 2 . £ I /I /

M . 1 P . l (S 4 9 A savage attack on Wilde . ub ished privately by

the author .

L D N N B O N T . . S . . . CR S A ( W S O E T F I R S T E D I T I O N oards . Fine copy 1 1 1 0 9 2 . /

E L N E 1 . CURRI ( ady) . E F A N T S T R O U V S O F L I T E R A T U R E . 904

. The ineteenth Centu 1 . dis S M . N 0 (Not in ) In ry, July 9 4 Includes a h la cu ssion of T e Bal d of Reading Gaol .

a r ia DIETZ (Carl) . O S C A R W I L D E . [A German bibliography and an pp ec

B 1 . . . . 0 tion ] 4to Wrappers [ remen] , 9 9

M . Die Schone L teratur P (Not in S . ) Contained in i . resentation copy to Stuart Mason from the author .

THE E T L B A N D IGH Y C U . R U L E S L I S T O F M E M B E R S . Report for

1 . . 890 Small 8v o 1 89 1 . ’

M . L (Not in S . . ) Gives Wilde s name in the list of members oosely

inserted is the receipt for his subscription in 1 889 .

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B B . E T TE NN L . N R AC A UA oards , with ibliography label Wrappers, bound 6 1 88 . in . 2 7 B S . M . (Not in ) Contains a cartoon , by Alfred ryan , of Wilde , entitled

jonathan Wild .

A s . 1 1 FISH (Arthur) . O S C A R W I L D E E D I T O R . Illustrated 9 3 . ’

M . ar r a a ne 1 1 . S . H e s M i O ( p g z , ctober 4 , 9 3

DE D . o . . 1 1 2 . GI S 8v Wrappers . Amsterdam 9 5/

door . I . de M . Aan Oscar Wilde S . : (Not in ) Contains a poem , 3

H . L a P . a n. resentation copy from the poet to Mr Stuart Mason oosely inserted are four A . L . S . from the author to Mason and Ross . Also a

Dutch newspaper with an article on Reading Gaol and Oscar Wilde .

- K . P 8 0 . D R . . v IRC S ( ) P L A Y E R S O F T O D A Y . Illustrated ost Wrappers 2 /6

M . . (S . Contains a critical study ofWilde and an unusual portrait

LE N . . F MING (George) . A N I L E N O V E L . 2 Vols . S E C O D E D I T I O N M I R A G E

1 8 . . T . O . 3 Vols F I R S T E D I T I O N . ogether 5 Vols riginal cloth 7 7

M Ravenna 1 8 8 To S . . 1 T 2 . h e ( 4 note ) dedication of , 7 , reads My ’ ‘ ” ’ Th e Friend George Fleming , Author of Nile Novel , and Mirage George Fleming was the pseudonym ofJulia Constance Fletcher . ’

ALL IE E B . G N . . (R le) . T H E C O M I N G B A C K O F O S C A R W I L D E inder s boards

1 9 1 9 . ’ M E M uns s . B . (Not in S . ) With the ibliography label xtracted from ey Ma a ine 1 1 . g z , March 9 9

’

ON . MAS (Stuart) O S C A R W I L D E A Study from the French of Andre Gide .

With introduction , notes , and a bibliography by Stuart Mason . Illustrated .

8v o . Ox 1 0 . Sq . ford , 9 5 ’ S M Th e his ( . . author s own proof copy , with autograph on the ’ fl l af e . y With copious interesting marginal notes in the author s hand ,

and sundry illustrations and photographs inserted . On the reverse of M S . the contents leaf is an elaborate genealogical tree in , tracing the ’ O Fl nn 1 6 pedigree of the Wilde family back to the y in the th century , L another shorter one of the loyd family, and another attempt at a Maturin

genealogy .

N . MASO (Stuart) A B I B L I O G R A P H Y O F T H E P O E M S O F O S C A R W I L D E , i with variations of Readings and a complete list of all edit ons , reprints , ’

. . T 8v o . B . 1 0 . / translations , etc Illustrated hick inder s cloth 9 7 £I /I O ’

S . M . ( Author s proof copy, interleaved with copious notes , T corrections , additions and emendations in his hand . his bibliography gives considerably more detail and information on the Poems than is

possible in the larger bibliography .

8 o . 1 0 . Idem . Illustrated . Sq . v 9 7

M . T S . 1 6 ( his is an early copy, with the portrait facing page , Th e which was afterwards removed , as it was discovered to be a forgery . ’ w fl author s own copy, ith his autograph on the yleaf, with his large book L plate and a few marginal notes in his hand . oosely inserted is a card with some verses in Greek and English and some designs by Charles

Ricketts . I No . 6 dem . Another copy . F I R S T I S S U E . autograph /

Idem . 2 th e One of 5 numbered copies, on large handmade paper, with illustra tions on Jap vellum . M (S . .

8v o . f MASON (Stuart) . B I B L I O G R A P H Y O F O S C A R W I L D E . Roy . Sti f

1 0 8 . wrappers . 9

S . M . . ( One of I I numbered copies , Signed by the author L Privately printed . oosely inserted is a list of the people to whom it was Six sent . From this it appears that five copies are in libraries , and only T ’ copies are available in private hands . his copy is the bibliographer s

own , and is number one . e Id m . Corrected galley proofs .

O . . . MAS N (Stuart) O S C A R W I L D E , A R T A N D M O R A L I T Y Illustrated 6 N . 8y o . 1 0 . F I R S T E D I T I O Cr . 9 8 /

M . (S .

la l\/Iil rd . Idem . Another copy, With copious notes by Ross and ’

8 o . B N . . . v MASO (Stuart) A R T A N D M O R A L I T Y . Illustrated Cr inder s 1 cloth . 5/ ’

M . . (S . Author s corrected proof of the revised edition Th ’ Idem . e author s own copy of the book , with his autograph , and date on T - wo . flyleaf and a few notes in his hand . dust wrappers

M . (S .

cr . 8v o . . 1 1 2 . Idem . Small Half leather 9

S . M . . ( Fourth proof, with a few corrections

M . T ASON (Stuart) . B I B L I O G R A P H Y O F O S C A R W I L D E Illustrated . hick 1 6 8v o . / ’

D . With Millard s Signature in full and his note . uplicate copy

MASON (Stuart) . O S C A R W I L D E A N D T H E A E S T H E T I C M O V E M E N T . With illustrations from contemporary prints . F I R S T E D I T I O N . 4to .

N . D . 1 0 Wrappers . /

M . L (Not in S . ) oosely inserted are a number of letters from the Th e publisher referring to the book . essay is a discussion of the songs ” - - Yaller and music covers , burlesquing Wilde and the Greenery y young man

Ide m . Another copy . Sl I T ’ dem . 1 ypescript , corrected in the author s hand throughout , on 3 quarto 1 pages . With some correspondence relating to the same . £ /

I N dem . A C O L L E C T I O N O F S O N G S A N D D A C E S referred to in the above , as parodying the aesthetic movement : (I ) Th e Gray Mare (Th e Three 2 D Young Men of Ware) () My ado (covers only) (3 ) Utterly Utter , D L Th e li it an aesthetic duet ; (4) ream of the ily, Waltz ; (5) F pp y Flop ff Young Man (two di erent copies) .

M . S . . (Not in ) All have decorative covers , mostly coloured EL LLE L P . S : E D . 1 1 . M VI ( ewis) O C A R W I L D E oet , ssayist , ramatist 9 9 M Th e wWorld 1 1 . Not S . . Ne ( in ) In , November 9 9

E LL . . P B B M RRI (Stuart) O S C A R W I L D E ortrait . 4to . oards , with iblio P D 1 1 00 . graphy label . Wrappers , bound in . aris , écembre 5 , 9

S . M . La Plum e L . . . 80 . No . 2 (Not in ) , oosely inserted is an A L S E from Merrill and a MS . translation of the article into nglish .

E P . MIN R (W . O S C A R W I L D E , A M A S T E R O F P R O S E S T Y L E . ortrait “ ”

8v o . 1 1 . Mounted and done into a booklet by Vincent Starrett . 9 7 5/

M . (Not in S . )

D L N MUN AY ( uther) . A C H R O I C L E O F F R I E N D S H I P S . Illustrated . F I R S T 1 0 E D I T I O N . / M S . . . . . ( I With A L S from the author inserted . Contains numerous

references to Wilde .

E AG E . N W 6 1 1 2 . June , 9

S M . L (Not in . ) oosely inserted , as a supplement , is a fine print of the E pstein monument . K E E N N . 0 1 . 1 6 3 WMA ( rnest) O S C A R W I L D E F I R S T E D I T I O N . mo . Wrappers . Fine copy .

S . M O 2 ( . nly 5 copies printed . 0 2 NOTE B BL P E 3 . . S FOR A I IOGRA HY of Oscar Wilde , by W R dinburgh , I 905 5/ ’ - M . B S . The ook Lover a a i s M ne . . P . ( In g z , Vol V art 3 ’

O D N E D . B O OGHU ( T H E P O E T S O F I R E L A N D . A iographical P D . 8v o . . 1 . ictionary arts I and 3 only . Wrappers 89 2

M . P (S . art 3 contains biographical notices of Oscar and Willie

L . P Wilde and also of ady Wilde resentation copy from the author . ’ D E D O . B Dic ONOGHU ( T H E P O E T S O F I R E L A N D . A iographical — 1 . tionary . 89 2 93 J61 /1 / M S . . ( With numerous long A . L . S . from the author , and a copy Th e of a letter from Wilde, referring to an early article of his . volume gives O L - a biography of scar and of Willie Wilde . arge book plate . ARI M ON OSC S . . 1 Illustrated 895 . 5/ — ’ M . oot i h Not S . F ( in ) In l g ts Judy s Annual for 1 895 . Includes also

a caricature of Wilde in female costume .

TL K . . B B . OU OO 4to oards , with ibliography label . Wrappers, bound in

1 9 1 3 . I o/6

M . (Not in S . ) Contains a long account of the unpublished parts of

De Pro undis P P . B f by . Howe , and an essay by A . M . roadley on Wilde as - a letter writer (S . M . with several examples . P D E E ARO I S of the Works of nglish and American Authors, collected and

88 . O . 1 annotated by Walter Hamilton . Vol . VI . 4to . riginal cloth 9

S . M . . T ( 54, etc ) his volume includes numerous clever parodies of T i B Wilde by John odhunter and others . Sw nburne and rowning are also

included in the parodies . P Idem . 6 . 1 . 6 . . 88 arts 3 and 4 4to Half green niger , wrappers , bound in 9 ’

M . e . S . Hous . The Harlot s ( 54, etc ) Includes parodies of , etc

Idem . Th e L same two numbers , stitching loose , with A . L . S . from Walter edger ,

identifying the originals of the parodies . PL N T B w 8v o . OWMA ( . T H E A E S T H E T E S . Illustrated . oards , ith B 1 8 6 ibliography label . 95 . 3/

8 . M . ne 1 Not S . E The Pall M all M a a i ( in ) xtracted from g z , January 95 P K ’ NN L . 1 UC S A UA New York . 882 . 5/

S . M . n L . (Not in ) Contai s parodies of Wilde . acks wrappers

E A P . . O S C A R W I L D E A C R I T I C A L S T U D Y . RANSOM ( rthur) , ortrait F I R S T

8 o 1 . 2 2 . v . 1 2 E D I T I O N Fine copy in jack e t (two ja ck ets ) . 9 J£ / / M 1 2 1 1 2 S . . P y ( resentation copy , Signed and dated Februar , 9 ,

’ Im ortance o B ein E arnes t p f g , an account of the ladies dresses , and an illustrated supplement of the play

T . N SMITH (H . ravers) T H E R E T U R O F O S C A R W I L D E and A N E W M E S S A G E

1 . F R O M O S C A R W I L DE . 9 2 3

M . The Occult Re S . view (Not in ) In for August and November 1 9 2 3 . Alleged communications by automatic writing .

- T E L . SMI H RS ( eonard) His book plate . Specially pulled on large handmade

paper . 2 /6 THE N M ILKANWATHA SO G OF , translated from the Original Feejee by B . T . Marc Anthony Henderson Illustrated by Frank eard . hird edition

P 8v o . New 1 88 . ost Albany, York , 3 5/

S . M . (Not in ) A burlesque of the aesthetic movement . Many of the ’ r illustrations are caricatures of Wilde . Vincent S ta rett s autograph on fl yleaf.

THE T LDE . . 1 m . New S ORY OF OSCAR WI Illustrated 6 0 Wrappers . [

York ,

M . D (Not in S . ) A booklet issued by oubleday announcing the ’ Patrons Edition .

- 1 0 . STUART YOUNG (J . O S C A R W I L D E : A M E M O I R . 9 5 T M . he E n lish Illus r ted M a a ine 1 . S . t a 0 (Not in ) In g g z , September 9 5

- - O S R A C . P STUART YOUNG (J . T H E S E L F S U F F I C I E N T ortraits and

. . . 1 0 . facsimiles 4to Cloth , gilt Sunderland , 9 5

680 . . (S . M . A curious production An introductory preface gives an fl account of the good in uence of Wilde on the author , and the long poem

r . 1 8 is a panegy ic in praise of Wilde However , the volume illustrated with iii s ri d c b e . What purport to be autograph letters and portraits , all of Wilde T here can be no doubt that these are forgeries , and that many of the state

ments in the text are inaccurate . T ’ his copy has many notes in Millard s hand , and loosely inserted are

- - L . letters from Walter Ledger and Stuart Young . arge book plate

Idem . . Another issue of the same , in cheaper binding Containing the poem

1 0 . 1 6 only , with a slip stating this is sent out for review . 9 5 /

- L . . . S . M . I ( oosely inserted are two page A L S from the author ,

N . one to Robert Ross and one to J . G . icholson

STUART YOUNG (J . M . ) A C U P F U L O F K E R N E L S . F I R S T E D I T I O N .

8v o . 1 0 . Sq . 9 9 5/ L - Carelessly opened . arge book plate .

- P L . T T . . S UAR YOUNG (J O U T O F H O U R S oems , yrics and Sonnets 1 Illustrated . F I R S T E D I T I O N . 9 09 . 5/

To a dead oet . M . . (Not in S . ) Contains a poem to Oscar Wilde p - With large book plate . A E S T E R . O . 0 SYMONS (Arthur) . J W I T H G E N I U S [ scar Wilde ] 33

M The B ookman. New 1 0 . S . 2 Not . ( in ) In York , April 9 T E 1 8 . H ATRE . June 93 - M . . (Not in S . ) Contains a 4 pp Open letter by Candid Friend I e - D 1 . d m . July ecember 89 2 33 I A ’ o M (N t in S . . ) Contains a photograph of Alexander s production of ’ Wilde s plays . THURSTON HOPKINS O S C A R W I L D E : A S T U D Y O F T H E M A N 33 2

M ou trie . New . H P E . A N D I S W O R K . ortrait by and revised edition

T . . 8 o 1 1 . v . With an introduction by Sir . Marchant Williams Cr 9 3 M P S . . ( resentation copy, with Signed inscription , from the

L A . L . s . author to Stuart Mason . oosely inserted are two from the author, - about the book , one of which states that only two copies of the dust wrapper

were done on White paper ; and two A . L . S . from the writer of the intro

duction , referring to it . — T - here are two dust Wrappers on this copy one bright red , one White .

T T 1 2 . HURS ON HOPKINS O S C A R W I L D E . F I R S T E D I T I O N . mo 333 1 1 Wrappers . [ 9 6 ] No S M t . . ( in ) With a long Signed inscription from the author , and

- a 2 pp . quarto A . L . S . from the author to Millard .

I e A d m . With inscription , but no letter . SS3 D eals chiefl y with De Profundis .

T T 1 88 6 RU H . Christmas number . 4to . Wrappers . 4 . 3/ 334

M . . (Not in S . ) Has a caricature of Wilde as an aesthete LLE L . . . WA R (ewis) . P A R T S I H A V E P L A Y E D . Illustrated 4to Wrappers 335

N . D .

No M An Ideal ( t in S . . ) Includes portrait as Sir Robert Chiltern in H us band .

T M U S A R U M 6 WA SON (William) . L A C H RYM A E . First issue of the F I R S T 33

1 8 . E D I T I O N . Fine copy . 9 2

S . M T Lines ( . his issue is the only one to contain the poem ’ to our NewCens or , deriding Wilde s proposal to become a naturalised French ’ man . Wilde retorted There is not enough fire in William Watson s poetry to boil a tea - kettle

L E . D . OSCAR WI . T H R E E T I M E S T R I E D . F I R S T E D I T I O N Fine copy 3 3 7 Th Ferr I o e es tone P N . D . ress . 7£3/ /

M - S . Th . e ( only full account , with the evidence , cross examina

E . tion and speeches , of the three trials . dited by Stuart Mason ’ ’ Ide E m . B . 2 . . ditor s proof vols inder s cloth With numerous annotations , 338 ’ corrections and notes , in Millard s hand , and press cuttings and illustra

1 11 . . 1 0 tions loosely inserted or pasted N D . £3/ / S M ( . . WILKINSON (Louis) . O S C A R W I L D E . Some Hitherto Unpublished Letters P B B L . . y of the ast hase 4to oards with ibliograph label . Wrappers ,

1 1 . bound in . 9 4 tesman 1 1 M . The ewSta . S . N (Not in ) , January 3 , 9 4

N 1 88 WILLS (W . G . ) M E L C H I O R . F I R S T E D I T I O . 5 . L S M . . . . ad (See oosely inserted is an A L S from the author , ” dressed to My dear Wylde , thanking him for reviewing the book . The P all M all Ga ette 1 1 88 Wilde reviewed it in z of March 3 , 5 , under the ’ Th e heading A M odern Epic. letter is printed in full in Mason s biblio

graphy .

YOUNG (Dal) . A P O L O G I A P R O O S C A R W I L D E . F I R S T E D I T I O N . Wrap

pers . M (S . .

I . 1 dem . Half morocco extra , original wrappers , bound in 5/

. . . 8v o Loosely inserted is an A L S . (3 pp ) from the author to More D l I 1 8 . . . . . a Adey , January , 9 7 Also an A L S from Mrs Young , addressed ’ - to ROSS . Millard s autograph and small book plate .

E n s h Lec e To 2 Im ess ions o America 1 1 gli tur ur , 34 pr f , 3 , I I 3A En is h Renais s ance 2 8 1 2 1 1 6 I n a Good aus e 1 6 I G A gl , , 3 , 3 , 33 , 3 C , 4 , 4 ’ Entr Acte Annual 2 66 I n P rais e Os car Wilde 1 , of , 3 5 ’ L Envoi 1 8 In the Fo es t 1 6 , 7 r , 5 E i ams 8 I ntentions 1 1 - I 2 OA 1 2 1 p gr , 9 7 , 9 , 4 , 79 , 7 E e n 2 1 2 8 00 I is h M onth 1 pst i , 4 , 7 , 3 r ly, 55 Ess a s and Lectu es 1 2 1 y r , 4, 79 , 7 m e Hen Ja s, ry, 39 Fact 2 a din Le 1 62 1 0 , 44 Jr , , , 7 Fantais ies Decoratives a din des Tui e ies Le 1 6 , 3 7 jr l r , , 4, ’ Feui e Litteraire 1 2 es ter with Genius 0 ll , 7 j , 3 3 Fi s t Stone 2 6 1 r , K r l G H 6 e s e . . 2 80 F sh A . 2 2 i , , 7 y, , 79 , Fishe man and His Soul 1 2 Kottabos 1 6 I 6A r , 7 , 5 , 5 F n G Echoes f om 1 em i . 2 0 l g, , 7 , r , 57 Flo entine Tra ed 2 1 2 1 r g y, 95 , 99 , 7 , 3 Foot i hts 0 Lach mae M usarum 6 l g , 3 5 ry , 33 ’ For Love o the Kin 1 00- 1 0 1 2 1 Lad Windermere s Fan 1 1 1 2 f g, 95 , , 7 y , , 39 , 59 , , Fo tni ht Review 1 1 r g ly , 9 Fou Im ress ions 1 0 r p , 7 ’ F a ment om Aesch los 1 6 I 6A Lad s Picto ial r g fr y , 5 , 5 y r , 3 7 From S rin time 1 6 I 6 A L a eu nesse E 1 p g , 9 , 9 J , S 3 9 , 59 , 3 4 Lan And ew 6 g, r , 5 ' G alli n R l e A 1 Leben in Sch nheit 1 e e . 2 2 2 2 2 o 2 , , 3 , 7 , 7 , 5 Garden o E os Lectu e to Art Students 1 2 1 1 6 f r , 9 r , 3 , 3 , 33 , 3 G d A 8 1 1 Lectu es 1 e . 2 6 i , , 3 5 . 47 , , 3 4 r , 3 l a z r L d W 1 OBA 6 G en e R . B. e e 2 2 2 2 2 2 . , , 74 g r , , 3 7 , 7 , , 3 , 3 Golden Book 1 Lette s 1 , 93 r , 3 ’ Goos e- uill 6 Libertatis Sacra Fumes 6 Q , 7 , G eat Thou hts om Oscar Wilde London M odels 1 1 8 r g fr , , 3 7 , 3 ’ G n 1 Lo d A th Sav le s ime 1 2 - 1 2 e . T . 2 2 u i r i , J , r r r Cr , 4, 5 3 , Guido Ferranti 6 2 1 , 9 Lotus Llaves 1 , 55 Ham on Wa e 0 Louis Na oleon 1 ilt , lt r, 3 7 p , 49 Ha P ince 1 0 1 0 2 20 2 Lud ate M onth 2 6 ppy r , 3 , 4, , 75 g ly, 7 n L n - P 0 Ha a d H . u e oe 8 6 rl , , 39 g , 3 , ’ Ha ot s Hous e 08 rl , 3 7 , 3 ’ M a n M Ha e s 2 6 e e ck . rp r , 7 t rli , , 3 9 H s F ank 8 1 1 60 1 2 2 M a n W d e 8 1 8 arri , r , 3 , 39 , 4 , 47 , 5 , , 9 , 5 , rti , ar r , 3 , 9 M a M d son S u a . S ee , t rt illar Herac itus M a T d e 6 60 os . l , 79 tt , , 5 , House Deco ation 1 6 M a in h a es 8 60 2 8 1 r , 3 tur , C rl , 3 , 54, , Hous e ud ment 1 6 M elchio 0 of Jg , 7 r, 3 4 H s o P om e ranates 1 0 1 1 1 M L 6 ou e 2 e e . 2 f g , 5 , 35 , 79 , 7 lvill , , 9 Hou s m an L 2 M er La 1 62 1 0 , . , 7 7 , , , 7 8 a 8 M e S . 2 How d C . 2 r , , 7 rrill , , 3 , 39 , 97 8 M e erfeld M . y , , 34, 73 , 9 , 94 Ideal Hus band An 2 1 06- 1 1 0 1 a d 0 1 8 M . S 2 2 , , , 39 , 59 , , 4 , ill r , C , . 33 , 34 , 3 7 , 5 . 5 3 , 55 . 6 60 6 x 6 2 88 - 0 5 , , . 7 , 7 , 73 . 7 7 , 9 , 93 , Im o tance o Bein E a nes t 1 1 1 1 00 1 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 p r f g r , 3 , 39 , 43 , 95 , 9 7 , , , 7 , , 3 , I I 3A,

Im ess ions 1 62 pr , I m ess ions da Vo a e 1 8 2 1 1 - 2 2 1 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 6 pr y g , 5 I 3A, 7 , , 5 , 7 , 4 , 4 , 1 36 2 8 - 2 0 2 2 2 2 6 2 68 2 8 1 - 2 Poems in P os e 1 2 6 1 4 5 , 5 , 5 7 , 4, , 95 , r , , 74 - o W. H. 1 1 1 1 1 8 2 6 1 2 8 P o t ait . 2 6 1 2 1 2 3 , 3 3 , 3 , 3 . 33 , 33 , 337 , 33 , r r e , 55 , 95 , , 9 3 2 P ess u n s 1 6 2 1 8 2 1 2 2 2 - 2 2 34 r C tti g , 9 , , 9 , 9 n H P ies t and the Aco te 8 1 2 2 6 Mi e W . . 2 8 y , , , r , , 9 r l 45 4 M i a e 2 0 Ps choanal tic Review2 60 r g , 7 y y , ’ M iscellanies 1 2 1 - 1 8 1 2 0 Puck s Annual 1 0 , 4, 3 , 3 , 3 3 3 , 55 , 9 , 3 M odel M illionai e 1 2 r , 7 M oon The 1 0 en b e Lo d 8 8 1 2 1 , , 7 Q ue s rry, r , 3 , 39 , , 9 Mr n M rs Davent 6 a d . 0 . . ry ,

68 Ranso m e A . 2 1 8 2 2 1 1 1 2 M nd a L . 1 2 u y, , , 99 , , , 3 , 3 , 3 ’ M uns e s 2 1 2 2 Ravenna 1 2 0 y , 7 , 7 , 5 7 , 59 , 75 , 7

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