BIB_ID
395242
Accession number
MA 13259
Creator
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956.
Display Date
undated [between 1895 and 1898].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.5 cm
Notes
The Ray inventory suggests a date of May 1898 for this letter.
Written on stationery printed "19, Hyde Park Place", where Beerbohm resided from 1895 to 1897; Wilde was tried and convicted in 1895.
Written on stationery printed "19, Hyde Park Place", where Beerbohm resided from 1895 to 1897; Wilde was tried and convicted in 1895.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil, "Beerbohm to Leverson", with a proposed date of "1895".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning Mrs. Leverson's health, a proposed trip to Paris with the Leverson's, a contract he has accepted to write and illustrate fairy stories ("Can you tell me what a fairy-story is and how one writes one? I dont know"), and the aftermath of the Oscar Wilde trial ("I suppose there is no chance of the authorities prosecuting anyone further. One or two of the papers seem to urge it. I hope our friends will all be safe.").
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