Letter from Oscar Wilde, Posillipo, Naples to Leonard Smithers 1861-1907, Oscar Wilde's publisher, London, wherein Wilde instructs on the printing and binding of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and asks ...Smithers to send a copy of an Aubrey drawing to ‘a young Russian… a great amateur of Aubrey’s art….Serge de Diaghilev.’ 11 November 1897. Extent: 3 folios with envelope.
Invitation, written in French, from Oscar Wilde, Hôtel Sandwich, Dieppe, to ‘Tétrarque de Judée,’ the French actor Aurélien Lugné-Poë, who played Herod in the first production of Salomé in 1896, ...requesting his company for lunch. 24 May 1897.Extent: 1 folio, verso blank.
Letter from Oscar Wilde, Posillipo, Naples to Leonard Smithers 1861-1907, Oscar Wilde's publisher discussing manuscript changes in The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and the printing of The Ideal Husband, ...both of which Smithers published. Some pencil annotations by former owner Julia Rosenthal. 2 November 1897.
Letter from Oscar Wilde, The Cottage, Goring-on-Thames to Lady Randolf Churchill Jennie Jerome, 1854-1921, American-born socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of Sir Winston ...Churchill with a quotation from A Woman of No Importance; ‘The only different between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future!... I trust your bet will be promptly paid, as I want to begin writing my new comedy and I have no pen!’ The ‘new comedy’ is probably Oscar Wilde’s first written reference to An Ideal Husband. June 1893.Extent: 2 folios.
Letter from Oscar Wilde, Hôtel d’Alsace, Rue de Beaux Arts, Paris, to Henry Davray, alerting him to his postal address at the Hôtel d’Alsace. With pencil annotations by former owner Julia ...Rosenthal.Undated, likely around August 1899.
Traducere a poveștii pentru copii în care un tânăr trist care nu găsește în grădina lui un trandafir roșu pentru iubită este auzit de o privighetoare care se hotărăște să îl ajute. Pentru iubirea ...tânărului și trandafir privighetoarea își sacrifică viața, iar iubita tănărului nu apreciază trandafirul pentru că nu se asortează ținutei sale
