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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Òu mourut Oscar Wilde : autograph manuscript essay signed, [n.d.].

BIB_ID
232715
Accession number
MA 5046
Creator
Bauër, Gérard, 1888-1967.
Display Date
[n.d.].
Credit line
Gift; Mark Samuels Lasner, in honor of Mary, Viscountess Eccles; 1999.
Description
1 item (3 p.); 28 cm.
Notes
Signed "Guermantes."
Marked up in red by the printer.
Provenance
Mark Samuels Lasner.
Summary
Describing an evocative visit to the Hotel d'Alsace on the rue des Beaux Arts in Paris, where Wilde died in 1900. The empty room reminds Bauër of visiting Wilde there with his father shortly before the writer died. "I saw him once, this daring & polished man, when I was a child and he would still meet in Paris one of those very few writers, Henri Bauër, who had come to his defense in adversity. . . . Yesterday I know well that I saw him in that hotel bedroom adjoining that dignified garden, denuded by the winter."