Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Hardbound pocket manuscript notebook with handwritten notes.

Scope and Contents Contains office copies of books published by Secker into which a variety of materials were laid in, tipped in, or pasted in to many of them. These materials include handwritten and typed cards, letters and royalty receipts; Richards Press and Martin Secker publication announcements; press cuttings of book reviews and articles; photographs and clipped photographic illustrations; handwritten poems and essays; and fragments of dust jackets and dust jacket blurbs.Items which could...

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Exchange regarding the publication of Ellmann's translation of Wilde's Salome. Includes McBath's essay, "Oh, The Patriots, The Patriots!...."

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Ellmann writes to "Mr. Fellows", in part: "Your excerpts from Mme. Melba's life seemed to me extremely interesting...."

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Photocopied materials.

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Ellmann's essay with end notes.

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Peter Forster's color prints and masks of the image "Awful Brevity" used in the 1991 Folio Society edition of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis. The prints serve as an illustrative example of the printmaking process.

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Photocopied materials.

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Press cuttings; photocopies from published sources.

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Includes "Love and Death" by Watts; scenes from the original production of The Importance of Being Earnest; actress from a scene from Salome by Paul Boyer; image of a 2-page spread from a St. James Theatre program; charicature of "A Wilde (K) Night in Ireland's Eye"; Pick-Me-Up cartoon, "A Wild"E" Forrecast"; "The Benevolent Bobby..." cartoon; views of Lord Wilde's memorial; reproduction of a diamond-cut drawing by Oscar Wilde; reproduction of Marquis of Queensberry calling card.