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

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

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

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.

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