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Buckley, Jerome H., 1950
Ellmann's letters to Buckley regarding Ellmann's Arnold paper; Buckley thanks Ellmann for a copy of the Wilde anthology.
Burfield, Diana, 1981-01-08
Burfield offers Ellmann references she found in the course of her research.
Canada, 1882
Photocopied materials.
Cape May County Free Library, 1978
Exchange regarding any direct references to Wilde's trip to Cape May.
Cassell Ltd., 1978
Exchange regarding the existence of Wilde-related materials within their archive.
Chapter 1
Drafts of Chapter 1 in two main versions. Version 1 begins: "Among writers who identified themselves with the 1890s, Oscar Wilde is the only one whom everyone still reads....". Version 2 titled "Toil of Growing Up" which begins: "Oscar Wilde first emerges for us into articulate being in a letter he wrote to his mother...."
Chapter 2
Drafts of Chapter 2 in two main versions. Version 1 titled "Birth of a Fiction" begins: The poet lived in the country amongst the meadows and the woods....". Version 2 titled "Toil of Growing Up" begins: "Oscar Wilde first emerges for us into articulate being in a letter he wrote to his mother...."
Chapter 3
Drafts, with variations, titled "Wilde in Oxford". Text begins: "To Irishmen, and perhaps to the English-speaking world generally, Oxford is to the mind what Paris to the body...."; one variation sub-titled "First Truancies".
Chapter 4
Draft with variations. Version 1 titled "Rome and Greece: Manningism", which begins: "Wilde was at home in Oxford now...." Version 2 titled "An Aesthetic Youth", which begins: "Voyages to Greece were not common in the 1870s though Byron had given them literary precendent...." Version 3 titled "An Incomplete Aesthete: Joys of Rustication", which begins: "Voyages to Greece were not common in the seventies of the last century. That they were necessary to a classical course...."