Autograph letter signed : Switzerland, to Louis Wilkinson, [postmark 1899 Mar. 20].

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Autograph letter signed : Switzerland, to Louis Wilkinson, [postmark 1899 Mar. 20].

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Saying he is glad Wilkinson has received and enjoyed a copy of the play [The Importance of Being Earnest], describing the area in Switzerland where he is staying and insulting the Swiss people ("they are shapeless, colourless: grey of texture, and without form ... here they are like cave-men: no impulse born of the splendour of physical perfection has ever filled them: their cattle have more expression"); saying he is glad Wilkinson is enjoying Shakespeare's sonnets and mentioning his work "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.," and praising Edward FitzGerald's translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat.

1 item (8 p.) ; 15.4 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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