BIB_ID
282146
Accession number
MA 7258.13
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
[1888 June 15].
Credit line
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Description
1 item (3 p.), bound ; 16.6 cm
Notes
The letter is undated; the date of writing is from the postmark.
Written on stationery embossed "16, Tite Street, / Chelsea, S.W."
Written on stationery embossed "16, Tite Street, / Chelsea, S.W."
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
Thanking him for his praise for his stories [The Happy Prince and other tales]; calling them "studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into a fanciful form: meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness."
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