Record ID:
197445
Accession number:
MA 14056
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 item (56 pages) ; 23 x 17.9 cm
Notes:
Date and title from first edition: The autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas. London : Martin Secker, 1929.
Sections of the manuscript variously foliated: 2, 23, 4, 10, 16 pages.
With the stamp of Douglas's publisher, "Martin Secker Limited", on page 1 (of 10) of the fourth section of the text.
Printer's notes in red at the head of some sections.
Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918.
Summary:
Portions of Douglas's autobiography comprising this manuscript include a passage explaning how he got his name and reminiscences of Frank Harris, Robert Ross, Max Beerbohm, Reggie Turner, the Bensons, Beardsley, and Oscar Wilde; with an appendix of 16 pages at the end concerning his response to the Dulau Wilde catalog.
Provenance:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
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