The portrait of Mr W.H. : AMs and related material, [1889?]-1921.

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The portrait of Mr W.H. : AMs and related material, [1889?]-1921.

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Copy text for the revised version of Wilde's story as it was published by Mitchell Kennerley in 1921. It consists of pages from the story as first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1889, with manuscript corrections and marginal additions, and some pages entirely in manuscript. Also present are a carbon copy of a typescript report (5 p.) written for Kennerley by Arthur Hooley, concerning possible "grounds for offense" in the story; a prospectus (4 p.) for the Kennerley edition, and a clipping from the New York Post, 20 June 1921, about Kennerley and the manuscript.

4 items in case ; 36 cm.Manuscript 105 p.

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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950

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Hooley, Arthur, 1875-1928

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