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Oscar Wilde, autograph letters and manuscripts, including the manuscript of his play 'The Duchess of Padua', with some related material
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
1878-1895
Comprises the following items: (1) Autograph letter to Marian Willets [1878]; (2) Manuscript draft and notes for the original contract made by J.M. Stoddart, and Co. with Wilde for publishing Rennell ...
Wilde, Oscar Autograph letter to Marian Willets ("Miss Willett"). Magdalen College, Oxford, "Thursday"
[1878]
Marian Fitzgerald Willets was stepdaughter of James Legge, the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford. The letter to her was originally sent with a photograph (no longer present) of a Burne-Jones waterc...
Autograph manuscript draft for Wilde's lecture on 'Art and Craftsmanship' (delivered in Philadelphia, 1882)
1892
The notes, drafted in purple crayon on seven sheets of the headed stationery of Wilde’s American publisher J.M. Stoddart & Co, relate to one of the lectures delivered on his extensive lecture tour o...
Oscar Autograph manuscript drafts of five aphorisms
[Early 1890s]
Held inside Wilde, Oscar "Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young" in The Chameleon, volume 1, number 1. London: Gay and Bird, December 1894. The manuscript aphorisms have evidently been pr...
Manuscript draft and notes for the original contract made by J.M. Stoddart, and Co. with Wilde for publishing Rennell Rodd's 'Rose leaf and apple leaf' and for his introduction to the work
[1882]
Items 2-4 are all held in the same portfolio case within a dark blue solander, which bears the gilt lettering 'Envoi. The original manuscript. Oscar Wilde. 1882'.
Autograph manuscript of 'L'envoi', Wilde's introductory essay to Rodd's 'Rose leaf and apple leaf
1882
Items 2-4 are all held in the same portfolio case within a dark blue solander, which bears the gilt lettering 'Envoi. The original manuscript. Oscar Wilde. 1882'.
Manuscript draft receipt from J.M. Stoddart, and Co. sent to Wilde for the publishing rights to his two poems 'Le jardin' and 'La mer'
No date [1880s]
When leaving for his lecture tour of America, Wilde took with him a copy of Songs in the south, a collection of poems by his Oxford friend Rennell Rodd, for which he agreed to seek an American publish...
Autograph manuscript of Wilde's play 'The Duchess of Padua'
1883
Bound in fine black tooled leather bearing a gilt coat of arms on the front cover and held within a black custom-made box bearing the gilt lettering 'Oscar Wilde/ The Duchess of Padua'
Original manuscript contract drawn up by Markby, Wilde, and Johnson, 9 Lincoln's Inn, for the publication of Wilde's 'The sphinx'
[July]1892
Originally held with a copy of the published work (1894) The contract is signed by Wilde, Ricketts, Mathews and Lane, witnessed by Charles Shannon and Edward Shelley (whose personal relationship wit...
Autograph letter to Robert Ross
[c.25 January 1895]
The letter refers to Wilde's illicit pleasures during his visit to Algiers with Lord Alfred Douglas while rehearsals for The importance of being earnest proceeded in London.
Autograph letter to Arthur Stannard
c.1888
Held inside the printed book 'De profundis', by Wilde, within a dark green tooled solander bearing the gilt title 'De profundis/ Wilde' (1905).
Wilde, Oscar Autograph manuscript drafts of six aphorisms, with revisions and deletions
Early 1890s
The six aphoristic paradoxes are written on a single foolscap page, the second being entirely deleted (but legible) and three others being revised. The fifth appears in 'Phrases and philosophies for t...