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La dame jaune : Autograph manuscript of the poem, undated.

BIB_ID
282135
Accession number
MA 7258.12
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 20.1 x 25.3 cm
Notes
The bottom left corner of the sheet on which the poem is written is torn away, as is a section along the right edge.
Provenance
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles in 2008; from the collection of Francis, 11th Marquess of Queensberry; sold at auction in London in 1951; offered by Maggs, 1953; location unknown from 1953 until its acquisition by Walter and Lucia Moreira Salles (year of acquisition unknown).
Summary
Being two 4-line stanzas with revisions in the text and with short lists of possible rhyming words in the lower and right hand margins.