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Oscar Wilde

In 1891 Oscar Wilde met a young Oxford undergraduate named Lord Alfred Douglas, known to friends and family as Bosie, the youngest son of the ninth Marquess of Queensberry. This letter—the earliest to survive from the passionate (and tragic) relationship that followed—was displayed to the public for the first time in over fifty years. Writing on stationery of his London club, Wilde referred to a visiting-card case, his recent gift to Douglas, and expressed candid longing to be together: "I should awfully like to go away with you somewhere where it is hot and coloured." At the top of the page Wilde scrawled Love to Encombe—the young viscount with whom Douglas was lodging at the time.

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