Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1982 Nov. 17.

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Typed letter signed with initials : Last House [Glen Ellen, California], to David Pleydell-Bouverie, 1982 Nov. 17.

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Thanking him for "Mrs. [Mary] Hyde's book of the [Bernard] Shaw-[Alfred] Douglas letters"; noting that she is going to read [Oscar Wilde's Ballad of] Reading Gaol again; wondering why Wilde "behaved so openly as he did with the wretched he-whores [Alfred] Taylor supplied him"; discussing the weather and daily activities at the Ranch; telling him that Marietta Voorhees is in the hospital; reporting that Norah [Barr] is coming back from Switzerland.

1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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