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Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967. Autograph letter signed : London, to Montgomery Hyde, 1953 Apr. 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Montgomery Hyde, 1953 Apr. 7.

Returning Hyde's copy of the Tite Street sale catalog, explaining the delay with a long account of his physical ailments, and concluding, "I have made extracts. As I suspected, my mother removed all articles of value of her own before the sale."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 18cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270974215 View

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Autograph letters (2) : 16 Tite St. [London], to Alick [George Alexander], [1891].

Title: Autograph letters (2) : 16 Tite St. [London], to Alick [George Alexander], [1891].

Concerning Wilde's agreement to write a play [later entitled Lady Windermere's Fan]. The first letter begins, "I beg to acknowledge with thanks your check for £50 on account of fees for my play," and continues with a request for tickets for him and his wife to "the premiere of Call's play." The second letter thanks Alexander for the £50 and says, "I am very disappointed I have not been able to write the play" and saying that he will not have time until The Duchess of Padua goes on tour in America in September.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (8 p.); 17.6 and 15.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270872506 View

Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Correspondence, 1819, 1849-1957, 1962

Title: Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection:Correspondence, 1819, 1849-1957, 1962

Material described in this finding aidrepresents the main correspondence portion of the Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circlecollection at the Clark Library. The collection includes letters by Wilde, his wife, his mother, Lord Alfred Douglas, More Adey,Christopher Millard, Robert Ross, and Adela Schuster, among many others.

ArchivalResource: 92 boxes,; 8 feet ofbound volumes.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9w1038gz View

Robert Baldwin Ross Collection, 1888-1951

Title: Robert Baldwin Ross Collection, 1888-1951

Correspondence, court papers, and other miscellaneous documents related to Robert Baldwin Ross.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes; (1.5 linear feet)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt638nf3jq View

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Oscar Wilde and his literary circle, ca. 1854-1944.

Title: Oscar Wilde and his literary circle, ca. 1854-1944.

Collection consists of roughly 3,000 items, of which approximately 400 are by Oscar Wilde. Other correspondents and authors include Lord Alfred Douglas, Adela Schuster, Constance Wilde, Robert Ross, and More Adey. Additional materials in the collection are letters by Wilde's family, literary friends, and others from Wilde's circle. Of special interest are the letters which Wilde wrote to friends Robert Ross and More Adey while at Reading Gaol. One of these letters is the cover letter for Wilde's De profundis. Also included is a large collection of ephemeral materials related to Wilde such as cartoons, programs of plays, clippings, posters, and a large selection of photographs and portraits.

ArchivalResource: 3000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622668 View

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. Algernon Charles Swinburne collection, 1839-1971 (bulk 1860-1930).

Title: Algernon Charles Swinburne collection, 1839-1971 (bulk 1860-1930).

The collection documents Swinburne's literary affairs and friendships, plus critical reactions to the poet. It consists of correspondence, writings, photographs, artworks, and printed material produced by Swinburne, his friends and associates, and present-day scholars. Over 200 pieces of holograph correspondence and manuscript material, over half of which is by Swinburne, are included. Also prominent is material by Theodore Watts-Dunton, Swinburne's friend and legal advisor.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (8 manuscript boxes and 2 portfolios)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316073360 View

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. LS fragment : London, to an unidentified correspondent, [18]89 June 21.

Title: LS fragment : London, to an unidentified correspondent, [18]89 June 21.

Last page only of a letter authorizing an increase in the Wildes' investment in the United States and South American Investment Trust. In the hand of Constance Wilde, signed by her and Oscar.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86156186 View

Heron-Allen, Edward, 1861-1943. Manual of cheirosophy &c : Correspondence. London 1885.

Title: Manual of cheirosophy &c : Correspondence. London 1885. [1884-1886]

Bound collection of 27 autograph letters written to Edward Heron-Allen on receipt of gift copies of his books Codex chiromantia and Manual of cheirosophy. Correspondents represent a wide range of people in the literary and scientific worlds, and letters are dated 1884-1886.

ArchivalResource: [102] p., bound ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/401726136 View

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957).

Title: Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957).

The Oscar Wilde Collection, 1851-1957, is divided fairly evenly between works and correspondence. Series I is composed of five major works by Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, and A Woman of No Importance are present as complete typescripts while an incomplete draft of A Florentine Tragedy is handwritten. Salome, in French, is in a complete holograph notebook. A few additional items are also present. Series II is divided into outgoing and incoming correspondence. Outgoing correspondence are letters from Wilde to friends and associates including George Alexander, Frank Harris, and Ada Leverson, among others. Incoming correspondence includes letters to Wilde from a wide variety of friends and admirers. Series III is divided into works by other authors and third-party correspondence. Works by other authors include Mr. and Mrs. Daventry (based on a plot by Wilde) by Frank Harris and Robert Sherard's Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship. Third-party correspondence includes letters between people who were associated with Wilde, his family, and his biographers, including Vyvyan Holland, Arthur Ransome, and Constance Wilde. Additional Wilde materials can be found in the Ransom Center's Photography, Art, and Performing Arts Collection, as well as in other manuscript collections.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.26 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122625016 View

Oscar Wilde Papers TXRC02-A3., 1851-1957, bulk 1877-1957

Title: Oscar Wilde Papers 1851-1957, bulk 1877-1957

The Oscar Wilde Collection is divided fairly evenly between works and correspondence. Some of the works are by people other than Wilde and a portion of the correspondence is written between people who were associated with Wilde.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00244/00244-P.html View

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 1832-1914. Letter, [18]92 Apr. 5, The Pines [London] to Mrs. [Oscar] Wilde [n.p.].

Title: Letter, [18]92 Apr. 5, The Pines [London] to Mrs. [Oscar] Wilde [n.p.].

On behalf of Swinburne, grants permission for an unidentified "friend of a friend" to set some lines to music, mentions the Wilde children, and speaks of Oscar's coolness toward him.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34364711 View

Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Wildeiana, 1858-1998

Title: Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Wildeiana, 1858-1998

This finding aid describes a wide-ranging collection of material relating to Oscar Wilde and to his literary and artistic circle in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Great Britain.

ArchivalResource: 92 boxes,; 8 feet of bound volumes.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt867nf36t View