BIB_ID
119959
Accession number
MA 1617.460
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
London, England, 1888 September?.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 16.7 x 12.3 cm
Notes
Written from "16, Tite Street, / Chelsea, S.W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
Wilde was proposed to the Savile Club the following month but was not elected.
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
Wilde was proposed to the Savile Club the following month but was not elected.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "It will give me great pleasure to lunch with you at the Savile on Saturday, though I am afraid that I shall be like a poor lion who has rashly intruded into a den of fierce Daniels. As for proposing me for the Savile, that is of course one of your merry jests. I am still reading your volume, preparatory to a review which I hope will be ready by the year 1900. I have decided that a great deal of it is poetry and that of the rest, part is poesy, and part . . . [Wilde's dots]. The weather here is rather cloudy this morning, but I hope it will clear up, though I am told that dampness is good for agriculture. Pray remember me to Mrs. Henley, and believe me ever yours / Oscar Wilde."
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