CHAPTER 24
1. Complete Letters, p. 4, n; also see p. 453.
2. Ibid., p. 454.
3. I am indebted to Mark Samuels Lasner for this information. For further details regarding Wilde’s relationship with Fitch see McKenna, pp. 111–4.
4. ‘The Critic as Artist, Part II’, Collected Works, p. 1009.
5. McKenna, p. 111.
6. Wratislaw, p. 17. See above, p. 000.
7. The details of Wilde’s book gifts to Shelley came to light during the Queensberry Trial, at which Wilde’s literary presents to another young man called Alfonso Conway were also mentioned. Wilde gave Conway a copy of W. Clark Russell’s The Wreck of the Grosvenor (London, 1891) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (London, 1883). See M. Holland (ed.), Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquis: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (London, 2003), pp. 316–17.
8. This theory was suggested by Merlin Holland in Scarlet Marquis, p. 142 and p. 316.
9. Complete Letters, p. 961.
10. This translation of Lionel Johnson’s ‘In Honorem Dorian Creatorisque Eius’ was made by Richard Ellmann on p. 306 of his biography.
11. McKenna, p. 149.
12. Dorian Gray, Collected Works, pp. 33–4.
13. Ibid., p. 80.
14. Complete Letters, p. 585.
15. William Freeman, The Life of Lord Alfred Douglas (London, 1948), p. 282.
16. ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’, in Ellmann (ed.), p. 187.
CHAPTER 25
1. Complete Letters, p. 461.
2. Alfred Douglas, ‘Notes for Frank Harris’, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library. Typically, Douglas gave several versions of this anecdote, later claiming to have read the novel fourteen times before he had met Wilde (see McKenna, p. 149).
3. Ibid.
4. Dorian Gray, Collected Works, pp. 88–9.
5. Douglas, ‘Notes for Frank Harris’.
6. The Oscar Wilde Collection of John B. Stetson (New York, 1920), item 14.
7. Ibid., item 51.
8. Ibid., item 84.
9. Catalogue of Rare Books offered for Sale from the Collection of Giles Gordon. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890s. Gekoski Catalogue no. 18 (1994), item 183 (London).
10. I am indebted to Caspar Wintermans for alerting me to the existence of the Marvell, which is in the collection of the late Sheila Colman. The Faithful Shepherdess (1897) is inscribed ‘Bosie from Oscar Paris’; like Douglas’s copy of Thomson’s poems, it forms part of the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
11. Complete Letters, pp. 620–1.
12. Ghazels from the Divan of Hafiz (London, 1893), trans. Justin Huntley McCarthy, p. 97 and p. 12.
13. De Profundis, Selected Letters, pp. 165–6.
14. See W.H. Auden’s perceptive 1962 review of The Letters of Oscar Wilde which is reproduced in R. Ellmann (ed.), Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1969).
15. Complete Letters, p. 948.
16. R. Croft-Cooke, Bosie (London, 1963), p. 67.
17. McKenna, p. 215.
18. Bonhams Catalogue, 30 September, 1997 (London, 1997).
CHAPTER 26
1. The Tite Street Catalogue, p. 10. mentions three volumes of the magazine The Spirit Lamp which Wilde must have received from its editor. See also Collected Letters, pp. 545–6.
2. For Wilde on Raffalovich see Reviews, p. 12. Wilde’s copy of Erotidia (London, 1889) was sold by Hodgson’s auctioneers at the start of the twentieth century. Clippings from auctioneers’ and book dealers’ catalogues, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library. Wilde refers to Bertha (London, 1885), which was published anonymously, in a letter reproduced in Complete Letters, p. 268.
3. Complete Letters, p. 268.
4. The book was published in London in 1871. Wilde’s copy, which he autographed ‘Oscar F. Wilde Magdalen College’ is part of the Eccles Bequest, the British Library. Wilde refers to the volume in Miscellanies, p. 22.
5. Simeon Solomon, A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep, pp. 17–9.
6. Sayle, Bertha. Epigraph to the poem ‘étude en réaliste in August (A un jeune homme)’.
7. Quoted in C. White (ed.), Nineteenth Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook (London, 1999). I am indebted to David Smith for drawing my attention to Carpenter’s comments on Whitman, and for supplying me with some of the information concerning late Victorian homosexuals contained in this chapter. I have also drawn on Neil McKenna’s Secret Life.
8. Beckson, p. 407.
9. Complete Letters, p. 96, p. 4, n.
10. Ellmann, pp. 161–4.
11. All of these titles are mentioned in the extended version of ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’
12. Ellmann, p. 31.
13. Mahaffy lists a number of classical authors who refer to homosexuality in a footnote in Social Life in Greece, the book Wilde helped to edit. Mahaffy, Social Life, ft p. 311.
14. Wilde, Notes on the Fragments of the Greek Poets. Wilde’s translations do not denote a particular prurience on his part. They simply demonstrate that homoerotic literature was studied, as a matter of course, by the superior classicists at Trinity.
15. Wilde, ‘Notes on Travel in Greece’ (c.1877).
16. See Complete Letters, p. 1070.
17. McKenna, p. 165. Krafft-Ebing’s ideas inform a petition for early release that Wilde wrote to the Home Secretary during his imprisonment. See Complete Letters, p. 656.
18. Complete Letters, p. 1107.
19. Dowling, pp. 79, 130–1.
20. Symonds, Studies (Second Series), p. 67.
21. McKenna, p. 202.
22. Complete Letters, p. 1197.
23. E. Carpenter, Civilisation: its Cause and its Cure (London, 1899), p. 105.
24. Ellmann, p. 364, n.
25. Ives’s books are now in the Harry Ransom Humanities Center Texas. I am grateful to John B. Thomas III for sending me information regarding Ives’s books and for generously sharing his thoughts on Ives and Wilde with me.
26. Ibid. and Complete Letters, p. 1197.
27. McKenna, p. 201. I am heavily indebted to McKenna’s book for the information on Ives contained in this chapter.
28. Miscellanies, p. 176.
29. Complete Letters, p. 625 and Earnest, Collected Works, p. 678.
30. McKenna, p. 201 and Complete Letters, p. 1197.
31. Letter from Alfred Douglas to George Ives, 23 December 1894. The letter is now in the possession of the American publisher David Deiss, who kindly sent me a copy of it.
32. Quoted in Beckson, pp. 167–8.
33. O’Sullivan, p. 78.
34. John Stokes, p. 85.
35. Complete Letters, p. 1173.
CHAPTER 27
1. Published in London in 1886, the book is now in the collection of Jeremy Mason, who very kindly allowed me to consult it along with the other items in his interesting archive of Wildeana.
2. Reviews, pp. 110–5.
3. S. Weintraub (ed.), Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897, Vol. I, (ed.). S. Weintraub (London, 1986).
4. All of the quotations from Quilter that appear in this chapter come from Anne Anderson’s article ‘Oscar’s Enemy . . . and neighbour: ’Arry Quilter and the “Gospel of Intensity”.’ The Wildean, 27 (2005).
5. Complete Letters, p. 399.
6. Reviews, pp. 110–5.
7. Wilde’s copy of Harry Quilter’s Sententiæ Artis, p. 67.
8. Ibid., pp. 57 and 288.
9. Ibid., p. 177.
10. Ellmann, p. 352.
11. Wilde’s copy of Quilter’s Sententiæ Artis, p. 86.
12. Ibid., pp. 376–7.
13. Ibid., p. 377.
14. Wilde’s unpublished letter to Cook is in the Eccles Bequest, the British Library. For both Quilter’s letter of complaint and the editor’s defence of his reviewer see the Pall Mall Gazette, 23 November 1886, pp. 11–2.
15. Tite Street Catalogue mentions a number of books Wilde reviewed, such as John Veitch’s The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, W.G. Wills’s Melchior, Lord Henry Somerset’s Songs of Adieu and William Morris’s A Tale of the House of the Wolfings. See Tite Street Catalogue, pp. 5–7. A reference to Sententiæ Artis appears on page 4 of the catalogue.
CHAPTER 28
1. Translation of the introduction to the 1934 edition of Teleny, published under the title ‘Hirsch’s memoirs’, Mendes, pp. 447–9.
2. Sherard, Real, pp. 262–3.
3. ‘The Critic as Artist, Part II’, Collected Works, p. 994.
4. Ellmann, p. 254.
5. Complete Letters, p. 175.
6. Ellmann, p. 237.
7. Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle 27 April, 1895.
8. See Alexander Michaelson (Marc-André Raffalovich), ‘Oscar Wilde’, Blackfriars, November 1927 and Merlin Holland (ed.), Scarlet Marquis, p. 313, n. 140.
9. Neil Bartlett, Who Was that Man? (London, 1988), pp. 105–6, from which I have derived this plot summary and the immortal quotation.
10. Arthur Symons ‘The Decadent Movement in Art and Literature’, quoted in Beckson, p. 64.
11. Ibid.
12. Ellmann, p. 332.
13. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. I, p. 199.
14. Complete Letters, n. p. 1, p. 435.
15. Beckson, p. 328.
16. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. I, p. 188.
17. Ellmann, p. 327.
18. Complete Letters, p. 625.
19. Merlin Holland (ed.), Scarlet Marquis, pp. 69–70.
20. In 1888 Smithers wrote to Wilde to praise his fairy tale ‘The Happy Prince’. Wilde was gratified by the praise and gave the publisher the manuscript of the story, which he cordially inscribed ‘To Leonard Smithers from his friend & a grateful friend, Oscar Wilde’ (Catalogue of Valuable Books, Sotheby’s, 1932). As Wilde’s manuscripts were either dispersed or placed in safe-keeping after the sale of his goods in 1895, this must have been presented to Smithers before his trials. The pair had, in any case, so many mutual friends in the small world of artistic and literary London that it is almost inconceivable that their paths never crossed in the first half of the 1890s. Smithers was an habitué of the Café Royal and the Crown, a pub which Wilde frequented; he also attended some of the first nights of Wilde’s plays.
21. Complete Letters, p. 924.
22. Ibid., p. 1063.
23. Ibid., p. 972 evidences Wilde’s familiarity with Sir Richard Burton and Leonard Smithers’s translations of Catullus, which the latter issued in 1894 under the title The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (London, 1894). See also O’Sullivan, pp. 113–4.
24. Anon., White Stains (London, 1898).
25. Complete Letters, p. 1093 and Mendes, pp. 308–9.
26. ‘Hirsch’s memoirs’, Mendes, p. 447.
27. Quoted in H. Montgomery Hyde, The Other Love (London, 1970), p. 122.
28. ‘Hirsch’s Memoirs’, Mendes, p. 252.
CHAPTER 29
1. This phrase is taken on loan from Richard Ellmann.
2. Complete Letters, p. 810.
3. Reviews, pp. 260–1.
4. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. I, p. 43 and p. 90.
5. Pearson, p.231.
6. Complete Letters, pp. 588–9.
7. Letter from Alfred Douglas to George Ives, 23 December 1894. In the possession of David Deiss, who kindly sent me a photocopy of it.
8. Ellmann, p. 377.
9. Ibid., p. 314.
10. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 155.
11. Ibid., p. 194.
12. H. Montgomery Hyde, The Trials of Oscar Wilde (Edinburgh, 1948), p. 177.
13. Ellmann, p. 371.
14. Ibid., pp. 419–20.
15. Ibid., p. 424.
16. Ibid., p. 394.
17. Ibid., pp. 420–1 and De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 167.
18. Complete Letters, p. 634.
19. Ellmann, p. 360.
20. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 296.
21. See the introduction to Merlin Holland (ed.), Scarlet Marquis.
22. Ellmann, p. 429.
23. Hyde, Trials, p. 154, n. 1.
24. Ellmann, p. 430.
PART III: A LIBRARY OF
LAMENTATIONS
CHAPTER 30
1. R. Jackson (ed.), The Importance of Being Earnest (London, 1980), p. 110.
2. Complete Letters, pp. 650–1.
3. Harris, p. 155.
4. ‘The Decay of Lying’, Collected Works, p. 924.
5. Complete Letters, pp. 647–8.
6. Ibid., p. 647.
7. Robert Ross, Introduction to A Florentine Tragedy.
8. Ellmann, pp. 435–6.
9. Ibid., p. 439.
10. Ibid.
11. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. I, p. 135.
12. Sherard, History, p. 171.
13. Sherard, The Life, p. 366.
14. Ellmann, p. 439.
15. Ada Leverson, Letters to the Sphinx (London, 1930), p. 42.
16. Ellmann, p. 441.
17. Quilter quotations are taken from Anne Anderson’s article ‘Oscar’s Enemy . . . and Neighbour’.
CHAPTER 31
1.P. Priestley, Victorian Prison Lives, (London and New York, 1985), p. 289.
2. Anon., Pentonville from Within (London, 1904), p. 31.
3. I have been unable to ascertain whether the cells at Pentonville had built-in lavatories. The so-called ‘slopping out system’ was certainly used at Reading Gaol, where Wilde served out the bulk of his sentence. Cellular sanitation was not reinstated at Reading until the 1980s.
4. R. Sherard, Twenty Years in Paris (London, 1905), p. 428.
5. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 100.
6. Priestley, p. 36.
7. Ibid., p. 37 and M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish (London, 1977), p. 237.
8. Ellmann, p. 451.
9. Rules of Wandsworth prison c.1910, p. 351. I am greatly indebted to Stewart McLaughlin, historian of the prison, for sending me photocopies of the relevant pages from the prison rule-book.
10. H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath (London, 1963), p. 275.
11. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, pp. 323–4.
12. Haldane to the Governor of Pentonville prison 28 June 1895, Prison Commission file 8/432, PRO.
13. Letter from the Governor of Pentonville to the Prison Commission, 2 July 1895, ibid.
14. Priestley, p. 289.
15. Letter from Irishwoman to the Governor of Pentonville 8 June 1895, Prison Commission file 8/434.
1. Governor of Wandsworth to the Prison Commission, 17 August 1895, Prison Commission file 8/432, PRO.
2. The library at Reading Gaol. Hyde, Aftermath, p. 87.
3. Rules of Wandsworth prison, p. 10 and Priestley, p. 111.
4. Priestley, p. 107.
5. Ibid., p. 112.
6. M. Ross (ed.), Robert Ross, Friend of Friends (London, 1952), p. 40.
7. O’Sullivan, p. 219. O’Sullivan attributes these words to Haldane but it is hard to imagine such an enlightened man uttering them. They are far more likely to have come from the lips of Pentonville’s governor. Perhaps Haldane quoted them to Wilde.
8. Pentonville prison’s library stocked a copy of the book in the 1890s. Pentonville from Within, p. 175.
9. Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Vol. III (London, 1892), p. 287 and p. 293.
10. Complete Letters, p. 1047.
11. Pentonville from Within, p. 41.
12. M. Ross (ed.), p. 40.
13. Sherard, Real, p. 258.
14. Haldane to Ruggles-Brise, Chairman of the Prison Commission, 24 August 1895, ibid.
15. It is in the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
16. Gilbert, in ‘The Critic as Artist, Part II’, calls this the ‘most suggestive’ story in Pater’s volume. For Wilde’s initial response to the book see Reviews, pp. 172–5.
17. Wilde’s copy of Imaginary Portraits (London, 1887), is part of the Eccles Bequest, the British Library, see pp. 122–3 and 170.
18. Complete Letters, p. 1047.
19. Ellmann, p. 465.
20. Complete Letters, p. 665, p. 2, n.
21. Anthony Stokes, Pit of Shame (Winchester, 2007), p. 82.
CHAPTER 33
1. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 219.
2. Isaacson to the Home Office, 9 November 1895. Prison Commission file 8/433, PRO.
3. Ellmann, p. 468.
4. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 186 and p. 224.
5. O’Sullivan, p. 63.
6. T. Wright and D. Mead (eds.), p. 45. The episode is recounted in Homer’s Odyssey, Book XI, lines 148–221.
7. Complete Letters, p. 858.
8. Ellmann, p. 467.
9. Complete Letters, p. 654.
10. See Wilde’s copy of Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
11. Beckson, pp. 1–2.
12. Complete Letters, p. 653.
13. M. Ross (ed.), p. 40.
14. Harris, p. 193.
15. Stokes, p. 85.
16. M. Ross (ed.), p. 40. Italicised by Ross.
17. Complete Letters, p. 657.
18. Prison Commission to Major Nelson, 27 July 1896, quoted in Hyde, Aftermath, pp. 77–8.
19. Governor of Reading Gaol to the Prison Commission, 29 July 1896, Prison Commission file 8/433, PRO.
20. George Ives, Diary entry, 1926, Harry Ransom Humanities Center, Texas. I am greatly indebted to John B. Thomas III for transcribing this entry for me.
21. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 329.
22. Sherard, Twenty Years, p. 427.
23. Complete Letters, p. 667.
24. Governor of Reading Gaol to the Prison Commission, 10 November 1896, Prison Commission file 8/433, PRO.
25. Notes Adey made after that meeting: MS Walpole, d.18, Bodleian Library.
26. Nelson to Adey, 11 February 1897, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
27. Governor of Reading Gaol to the Prison Commission, 12 March 1897, Prison Commission file 8/434, PRO.
CHAPTER 34
1. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 164.
2. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 330.
3. Sherard, Twenty Years, p. 427.
4. De Profundis, Selected Letters, pp. 200–1.
5. T. Wright and D. Mead (eds.), p. 51.
6. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 160.
7. Complete Letters, p. 957.
8. Ibid., p. 1002.
9. André Gide, Oscar Wilde (London, 1906), pp. 59–60.
10. Complete Letters, p. 1129.
11. Ibid., p. 166.
12. Letter from More Adey to Adela Schuster, 16 March 1897, William Andrews Clark Library (A233L S395 1897 Mar 16).
13. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 199.
14. Harris, p. 194.
15. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 384.
16. Ibid., p. 379.
CHAPTER 35
1. Complete Letters, p. 789.
2. Ibid., p. 409.
3. Ibid., p. 669.
4. Ibid., p. 967.
5. See below p. 000.
6. Complete Letters, p. 884.
7. Ibid., pp. 780–1.
8. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 332.
9. Complete Letters, p. 667.
10. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 211.
11. Ibid., p. 195 and p. 209.
12. The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Collected Works, p. 896.
13. Complete Letters, p. 669.
14. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 239.
15. Wilde’s copy of Imaginary Portraits, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library, p. 170.
16. Complete Letters, p. 880.
17. Ellmann, p. 486.
18. Sherard, Twenty Years, pp. 420–1.
19. Complete Letters, n. 1, p. 660.
20. Ibid., p. 802.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 790.
23. Ibid., p. 887.
24. Ibid., p. 673.
25. Ibid., p. 668.
26. Ibid., p. 880.
CHAPTER 36
1. Ellmann, p. 492.
2. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 196.
3. Complete Letters, pp. 790–1. The parentheses in this quotation are mine, not Wilde’s.
4. Ibid.
5. Beckson, p. 352 and M.A. Belloc, The Merry Wives of Westminster, (London, 1946), p. 46.
6. See above p. 000.
7. F.G. Bettany, Stewart Headlam (London, 1926), p. 132.
8. Complete Letters, p. 841.
9. Hyde, Aftermath, p. 143.
10. Max Beerbohm, Letters to Reggie Turner, p. 118, n.
11. A letter from Reginald Turner to C.S. Millard, 29 October 1910, the William Andrews Clark Library, T951LM645.
12. Complete Letters, p. 844.
13. Ibid., p. 846.
14. Both buildings were bombed during the Second World War. The site of the Chalet is now marked by a pathway named ‘sentier Oscar Wilde’.
15. See, for example, Gide, Oscar Wilde, p. 49.
16. Complete Letters, p. 856.
17. Ibid., p. 855.
18. Letter of 18 May 1897, Stetson Collection Catalogue, item 379. The book was The Poetical Works of Aubrey de Vere. Volume V (London, 1897).
19. Harris, p. 333.
20. Published in Paris in 1897.
21. Complete Letters, p. 874. Wilde’s italics.
22. Ellmann, p. 509.
23. Complete Letters, p. 946.
24. This unpublished letter, which probably dates from the latter half of June 1897, is written in French. In the letter Wilde does not identify the books he received. It is in the collection of Julia Rosenthal who very kindly allowed me to see it.
25. London, 1896.
26. Complete Letters, p. 901.
27. Ellmann, p. 507.
28. Paris, 1896.
29. It is now part of the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
30. Complete Letters, pp. 873–4.
31. Ibid,. p. 898. This is a reference to the yellow covers that adorned works of modern French literature.
32. Gide, Oscar Wilde, p. 52.
33. Complete Letters, p. 922.
34. Ibid., p. 1101 and p. 924.
35. London, 1896 and London, 1897.
CHAPTER 37
1. O’Sullivan, p. 221.
2. Letter from More Adey to Adela Schuster, 16 March 1897, William Andrews Clark Library.
3. I am assuming that Wilde was sent most, if not all, of the books that he requested.
4. London, 1897.
5. Complete Letters, p. 753.
6. Ellmann, p. 508.
7. Complete Letters, p. 1041.
8. Ibid., p. 1056.
9. Ricketts, Recollections, p. 48.
10. Quoted in Pearson, Oscar Wilde, p. 332.
11. London, 1895.
12. Paris, 1890.
13. De Profundis, Selected Letters, p. 196.
14. Complete Letters, p. 912.
15. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 335.
16. Complete Letters, p. 911.
17. Sherard, Twenty Years, p. 423.
18. Complete Letters, p. 934.
19. The bill for the shipment of Wilde’s possessions – Lettre de voiture made out to Sebastian Melmoth, 22 October 1897 – is in the William Andrews Clark Library, T7725Z, W6721.
CHAPTER 38
1. Complete Letters, p. 948.
2. Ibid., p. 946.
3. Bernard Shapero, Oscar Wilde: A Collection, (London, 1989).
4. Complete Letters, p. 1095.
5. Miscellanies, p. xiii.
6. T. Wright, (ed.), pp. 160–1.
7. Housman, p. 34.
8. Complete Letters, p. 895.
9. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 380.
CHAPTER 39
1. Sherard, Twenty Years, p. 456. For a reference to Wilde’s wine-stained book see above (p. 155).
2. Harris, p. 288.
3. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 385.
4. Housman, pp. 26–7. The book may have been Housman’s All-Fellows (London, 1896). See Complete Letters, p. 923.
5. Laurence Housman, p. 27.
6. Complete Letters, p. 1162.
7. Brentano invoice to Wilde, 3 December 1900, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, W6721 1900 Dec 3. The bill lists items that were unpaid on Wilde’s death, so it probably details some of the last book purchases he ever made.
8. ‘The Decay of Lying’, Collected Works, p. 924.
9. Complete Letters, p. 1118.
10. O’Sullivan, p. 36.
11. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, p. 375.
12. Letter from W. Cheeson to Wright & Jones Booksellers, in the ‘Collection of H. Montgomery Hyde’, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
13. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. II, pp. 378–9.
14. O’Sullivan, p. 143.
15. Complete Letters, p. 1037.
16. See Ellmann, p. 531. The book is now in the Robert Ross Memorial Collection, The Bodleian Library.
17. Wilde also received a copy of Jean Moreás’s L’Histoire de Jean de Paris (Paris, 1899) which is now in the Eccles Bequest, the British Library. In addition he was given Edouard Dujardin’s Antonia (Paris, 1899) and Paul Toulet’s Le Bréviaire des courtisanes (Paris, 1899); his copies are now in the library of the University of San Francisco.
18. Published in London in 1898.
19. Stetson Collection Catalogue, item 129.
20. Complete Letters, p. 1022.
21. Ibid., p. 1128.
22. Ibid., p. 1179.
23. Ibid., p. 1171.
24. Wilkinson to Wilde, 10 December 1898, the Eccles Bequest, the British Library.
25. Wilkinson to Wilde, 13 February 1899, William Andrews Clark Library, W6721LW686 1898–1914.
CHAPTER 40
1. Sherard, Real, p. 419 and his Twenty Years, pp. 456–8 See also Harris, p. 307.
2. Leverson, p. 46.
3. Sherard, Real, p. 419.
4. Ellmann, p. 548.
5. Ibid., pp. 545–6.
6. Complete Letters, p. 1216.
7. Ellmann, p. 548.
8. Complete Letters, p. 166.
9. Ibid., p. 1218.
10. Lady Wilde, Ancient Legends, p. 82.
11. Diary of George Ives, 18 February 1922 quoted in Stokes, p. 84.
12. Mikhail (ed.), Vol. I, p. 198.
13. Ellmann, p. 284.
14. Complete Letters, p. 446.
15. Ellmann, p. 188.
16. H. Travers Smith, Psychical Messages from Oscar Wilde (London, 1923), pp. 18 and 38–40.