BIB_ID
282139
Accession number
MA 7258.2
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
ca. 1893.
Credit line
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Description
1 item (6 p.), bound ; 32.9 cm
Notes
This manuscript is apparently the version sent to Lord Alfred Douglas for publication in "The Spirit Lamp."
With a note at the top of page 1 in Wilde's hand: "send proof to Oscar Wilde / Babbecombe Cliff / Babbecombe" [the house of Lady Mount-Temple].
With a note at the top of page 1 in Wilde's hand: "send proof to Oscar Wilde / Babbecombe Cliff / Babbecombe" [the house of Lady Mount-Temple].
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 a working draft of one of Wilde's "Poems in Prose;" written on the rectos of 6 leaves with revisions throughout; bearing ink smudges and compositors' marks.
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