Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Forgeries, 1887-1900

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Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Forgeries, 1887-1900

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This finding aid describes manuscript items that are confirmed or suggested forgeries of Oscar Wilde's work and correspondence.

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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

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SNAC Resource ID: 6653241

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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Otho Lloyd Holland

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Cravan, Arthur, 1887-1920?

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Lloyd, Fabian Avenarius, 1887-1920?

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Leonard Charles Smithers, 1861-1909

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Sir Rupert Hart-Davis

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William Andrews Clark memorial library

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The library and its collections were built by William Andrews Clark, Jr., and named after his father, who had built a mining fortune in MT. The son, a prominent Los Angeles book collector and philanthropist, had a house at the corner of Adams and Cimarron Streets, and from 1924 to 1926 he constructed the present library on the same lot. Shortly afterwards he announced his intent to donate the collection, the buildings, and the square-block property to UCLA. When he died in 1934 the deed passed t...