BIB_ID
282147
Accession number
MA 7258.14
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
[1894 Aug.].
Credit line
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Description
1 item (8 p.), bound ; 18.0 cm
Notes
Written on stationery embossed "16, Tite Street, / Chelsea, S.W," but Wilde has written "5 Esplanade, Worthing" at the top of the first page.
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
Saying he is returning corrected proofs [of his play "A Woman of No Importance"]; asking that it be proofread; saying that [Elkin] Mathews [Lane's former partner] may have Wilde's story "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" discussing an appropriate selling price for the volume; concerning the American copyright for "A Woman of No Importance."
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