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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection of Papers, 1819-1995
Shelfmark:
MS. Wilde
Origination:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
May, James Lewis, 1873-1961
and others
Abstract:
Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle is a collection of letters, manuscripts, and other material relating to Oscar Wilde and to the literary and artistic world of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Great Britain. The collection includes a large number of letters by Wilde himself, his wife and mother, Lord Alfred Douglas, More Adey, Christopher Millard, Robert Ross, and Adele Schuster. Significant manuscripts include drafts of
Lady Windermere's Fan,
An Ideal Husband, and a chapter of
The Picture of Dorian Gray. The papers of the author and publisher James Lewis May are also described here, as they include later correspondence by some of Wilde's associates.
Extent:
92 boxes, 8 feet of bound volumes.
Repository:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, CA 90018
Language:
English.
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