Ancillary Materials 1
1858-1998
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photographs, drawings, news clippings, programs for public presentations, and realia. Some of the material
collected herein is ephemeral and duplicates items kept in other collections or in different parts of this collection. The
materials are described analytically, with the exception of the items relating to Wilde's American tour in 1882, which are
set aside in subseries of their own.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into 8 subseries:
- Subseries 1.1. Photographs, 1858-1994, undated
- Subseries 1.2. Portraits, 1878-1940, undated
- Subseries 1.3. Sketches, Cartoons, and Caricatures, 1874-1946, undated
- Subseries 1.4. Theatrical Productions, 1883-1998, undated
- Subsubseries 1.4.1 Theatrical Productions of Wilde's Work, 1883-1998, undated
- Subsubseries 1.4.2 Theatrical Productions about Wilde, 1933-1997, undated
- Subseries 1.5. Reviews and Articles, 1881-1997, undated
- Subsubseries 1.5.1 Signed Reviews and Articles, 1881-1997, undated
- Subsubseries 1.5.2 Unsigned Reviews and Unattributed News Articles, 1881-1989, undated
- Subseries 1.6. Sheet Music and Associated Items, 1882-1914, undated
- Subseries 1.7. Memorabilia and Realia, 1912-1978, undated
- Subseries 1.8. Oscar Wilde in America, 1882-1883, 1978-1990, undated
Photographs 1.1
1858-1994, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains photographs of Wilde and his immediate circle. The subseries is arranged by the principle subject
of the photograph. [For convenience of reference, photographs including other persons with Oscar Wilde are listed under the
name of the other person involved.] For each subject, the photographs are arranged chronologically, by approximate date of
the original photograph. Additional identifying information, regarding poses, titles, and subject matter is also included.
Custance, Olive, 1874-1944
Mixed materials Wildeiana 15, Folder 5
Bust portrait by
G.C. Beresford (George Charles)
undated
De Lara, Isidore, 1858-1935.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 4
Bust portrait originally enclosed with letter to Ada Leverson,
1902
General Physical Description note: Unknown photographer. Inscribed on recto: "From your ever sincere friend, Lara, Paris, Dec. 19th, 1902." Originally accompanied
a letter to
Ada Leverson. Ms.Wilde D339L L661 [1902] [Dec.19].
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 2
Bust portrait by
G.C. Beresford (George Charles)
undated
General Physical Description note: 21 x 16 cm. Inscribed, in pencil, on verso: "Lord Alfred Douglas;" in another hand, "Here are the only photographs us left!"
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 11
Seated portrait by unknown photographer,
1894 February?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed on recto: "For Oscar from Bosie, Feb. 2, 1894." Inscribed, in ink, on verso: "Lord Alfred Douglas on
his flight into Egypt. February 1894, at 24." Inscribed at bottom, on verso: "Born 22 Oct. 1870." Negative available. Included
in Grunwald Center (UCLA) exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 15, item 12
Seated portrait by unknown photographer
1894
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Caption: Lord Alfred Douglas "... you had brought the whole ruin on me ..." Reproduced as frontispiece for
Some letters ... (1924)
Box Wildeiana 16, item 14
Sitting at a table outdoors in Naples, snapshot by unknown photographer,
1897
General Physical Description note: 9 x 9 cm.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 1
Seated portrait of Douglas and Maurice Schwabe by unknown photographer,
undated
General Physical Description note: 15 x 11 cm. Inscribed on verso (in pencil): "Lord Alfred Douglas and Maurice Schwabe"; "See Douglas letter Feb. 7, 1930."
In a different hand (in ink): "I hereby transfer the publishing rights this picture, granted me by Messers Gilman of St. Aldates,
Oxford, [remainder of inscription scratched out]."
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945 , with
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.
Box Wildeiana 16, item 1
Seated on a park bench in a studio setting.
1893
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer. 16 x 11 cm, mounted. Copy 1. In pencil, on verso: 6. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 9
Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas portrait standing in a garden by H. Mace
1892?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Probably taken in 1892 when Wilde was at Cromer writing
A Woman of No Importance and Douglas visited him.
Box Wildeiana 16, item 2
Seated on a park bench in a studio setting.
1893
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer. 16 x 11 cm. Removed from matte frame. Copy 2. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 5
Oscar Wilde standing with one foot resting on bench; Douglas seated, wearing a straw hat.
1893?
General Physical Description note: Unknown photographer. 13.5 x 9.5 cm. Same image as Box 16/Folder 6.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 6
Oscar Wilde standing with one foot resting on bench; Douglas seated, wearing a straw hat.
1893
General Physical Description note: Unknown photographer. 13.5 x 9.5 cm. Same image as Box 16/Folder 5. Purchase, 1957 (MS.1957.006).
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 7
Oscar Wilde standing with one foot resting on bench; Douglas seated, wearing a straw hat.
1893
General Physical Description note: Unknown photographer. 13.5 x 9.5 cm. Postcard version of image from Wildeiana Box 16/Folders 5 and 6. Stamped, in ink, on
verso: "Campbell Gray, Photo. 88 Edgware Road W."
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 8
Half tone image from printed source
1893?
General Physical Description note: 13 x 8 cm. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, item 17
Photocopy of Box 16, Item 13 with caption: "Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in Naples, 1897." Photocopy of Box 16, Item
14 with caption: ".... without him my life was dreary."
1897
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer.
Box Wildeiana 16, item 16
Sitting at table and looking away from camera.
1897
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer. 9 x 9 cm. Snapshots taken in Naples. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, item 15
Wilde sitting at table and Douglas standing behind him.
1897
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer. 9 x 9 cm. Snapshots taken in Naples. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 15, item 5
Bust portrait.
undated
General Physical Description note: Photograph by
George Charles Beresford. 21 x 16 cm.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 15
Oscar Wilde (seated on table) and Aubrey Fitzgerald photograph by
Hills & Saunders
1875 November 1?
General Physical Description note: 10.5 x 6.5 cm. Space in original album mount numbered #14 (upper right corner); original album mount in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder
11. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 22
Oscar Wilde (seated on chair) and Aubrey Fitzgerald (seated on table) portrait by
Hills & Saunders
1875 November 1
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Inscribed on verso: "O. Wilde, Magd.; A. Fitzgerald, Oriel; Nov 1 1875." Space in origial album mount numbered
#13 (lower right corner); Original album mount in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 11.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 2
Oscar Wilde, J.E.C. Bodley, R.J.E. Childers, W.O. Goldschmidt, and F.O.K. Wilde group portrait by
Hills & Saunders
1875 February 1
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed in ink on verso (in Oscar Wilde's hand): "O.F. Wilde Magd., J.E.C. Bodley Ball., R.J.E. Childers (?)
Ball, F.O.K. Wilde Dublin." and "1st February 1875." From same photography session as Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 3. Original
album mount in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 4. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 3
Oscar Wilde, J.E.C. Bodley, R.J.E. Childers, W.O. Goldschmidt, and F.O.K. Wilde group portrait by
Hills & Saunders
1875 February 1
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm + matte frame. From same photography session as Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 2. Original album mount in Wildeiana Box
16/Folder 4. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 11
Oscar Wilde, J.E.C. Bodley, R.J.E. Childers, W.O. Goldschmidt, and F.O.K. Wilde group portrait by
Hills & Saunders
1875 February 1
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-77
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 17
Oscar Wilde, A.F. Peyton, C.H. Lindon, C.H. Tindale and T.J. Peyton group portrait by
Hills & Saunders (reproduction from printed source)
1876 March 13
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed (in ink, in OW's hand?) on verso: "A.F. Peyton, C.H. Lindon, C.H. Tindale, O.F. Wilde, T.J. Peyton -
Magd." and "13 March 1876." Slightly different than Wildeiana Box 15/Folder 16. Original album mount in Wildeiana Box 15/Folder
19. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 16
Oscar Wilde, A.F. Peyton, C.H. Lindon, C.H. Tindale, and T.J. Peyton group portrait by
Hills & Saunders
1876 March 13
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Slightly different than Wildeiana Box 15/Folder 17. Original album mount in Wildeiana Box 15/Folder 18.
Hawtrey, Charles, 1858-1923.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 3
"Mr Charles Hawtrey," portrait by by Alfred Ellis and Walery
undated
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Commercially distributed photograph with printed captions.
Holland, Cyril, 1885- 1915
Mixed materials Wildeiana 11, Folder 7
"Mrs. Oscar Wilde and child," reproduction of portrait of Constance and Cyril from unknown newspaper,
undated
Mixed materials Wildeiana 18, Folder 8
Cameron Studio, portrait of Constance and Cyril with pen inscription by Oscar Wilde,
ca. 1889
Note
26 x 20 cm. Inscribed in Oscar Wilde's hand: "Constance and Cyril Wilde, Nov. 89. To Edgar Saltus."
Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 11
"Oscar Wilde's son to be married," photograph from
Daily Sketch
1913 December 19
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-120
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 10
"Oscar Wilde's son marries an actress: Mr Vyvyan Holland and his bride," with photograph by unknown photographer,
Daily Sketch,
1914 January 8
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-101
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
Box Wildeiana 8, item 1
Portrait.
1880
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer. Photographic print: image 9 x 5.5 cm, mounted on card to 10 x 6 cm. Date indeterminate;
subject identification inferred. In wooden frame 20 x 24.5 cm. Photograph framed with ALS, dated June 15, 1881 (?), from Henry
Irving? (writing illegible).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-138
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 5
View of old gate and receipt for the photograph from
Henry W. Taunt and Co.
1911
General Physical Description note: Photograph by Henry W. Taunt and Co. Photographic print: black and white (item 25); image 24.5 x 28.5 cm. Letter from Henry
Taunt to Stuart Mason [aka Christopher Millard] answering his inquiry regarding photographs of Magdalen College in Wildeiana
Box 9/Folder 19.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-31
Schwabe, Maurice, ca. 1875-1921
Mixed materials Wildeiana 15, Folder 1
Seated portrait of Schwabe and Lord Alfred Douglas by unknown photographer,
undated
Unidentified man, with
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 1
Oscar Wilde and unidentified man on bench in garden, portrait by
William Savage
abt. 1875-1878
General Physical Description note: 7 x 11 cm. Photograph by "W. Savage, 58 High Street & the Wykeham Studio, Winchester." Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 18
Oscar Wilde and unidentified man by
Hills & Saunders
1875 November 12
General Physical Description note: Dated, in pencil, on verso. Space in original album mount numbered #3 (upper left corner); Original album mount in Wildeiana
Box 16/Folder 17.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 19
Oscar Wilde and unidentified man portrait by
Hills & Saunders
1875 November 12
General Physical Description note: Dated, in pencil, on verso. Space in original album mount numbered #4 (upper left corner); Original album mount in Wildeiana
Box 16/Folder 17.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 16
Bust portrait of unidentified man by
Hills & Saunders
undated
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Space in original album mount unnumbered. Original album mount in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 14.
Ward, William Welsford , with
Reginald Harding and Wilde.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 20
Oscar Wilde, William Ward and Reginald Harding photograph by
Hills & Saunders
1876 March 12
General Physical Description note: Dated, in pencil, on verso. Space in original album mount numbered #5 (lower left corner); Original album mount in Wildeiana
Box 16/Folder 17.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 21
Oscar Wilde, William Ward and Reginald Harding photograph by
Hills & Saunders
1876 March 12
General Physical Description note: Inscription on verso (in ink): "O.F. Wilde, W.W. Ward, R. Harding : Magd." and "March 12 1876." Space in original album mount
numbered #6 (lower left corner); Original album mount in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 17.
Wilde, Constance, 1858-1898
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 22
"Mrs. Oscar Wilde," Reproduction of portrait by
Henry Herschel Hay Cameron, 1852-1911 in unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-35
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 13
Bust portrait by
W.K. (William Kinnimond) Burton?
1882?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed, in pencil, on verso: "Constance Mary Lloyd, 100 Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, London, 1882? aged 26; taken
at Dalgaty, Mr.Ainslie's home (father of Douglas Ainslie, the poet) by Mr. Burton, son of the Scottish historian." It is likely
that the photographer referred to is William Kinnimond Burton, the son of historian John Hill Burton. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 7
Seated portrait by
W. & D. Downey
1883?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed, in pencil, on verso: "Constance Mary Lloyd (Mrs. Oscar Wilde) 1883, 100 Lancaster Gate, aged 25." Photographers'
number: "18416." Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 8
Bust portrait by
Kingsbury & Notcutt.
1892?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed on verso (in pencil): "Constance Mary (Lloyd), Mrs. Oscar Wilde - 1892, aged 34." Included in Grunwald
Center (UCLA) exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 9
Standing portrait by Frederick Kingsbury
1892?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed on recto: "Constance Wilde." Inscribed on verso: "Constance Wilde, 1892, aged 34." Negative available.
Included in Grunwald Center (UCLA) exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 10
Bust portrait by
F. Langbein and Co.
1897?
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed on verso (in ink): "Mrs. Oscar Wilde, nee Constance Mary Lloyd, 1897, aged 39." Included in Grunwald
Center (UCLA) exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 7
"Mrs. Oscar Wilde and child," reproduction of portrait of Constance and Cyril from unknown newspaper,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-53
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 8
Cameron Studio, portrait of Constance and Cyril with pen inscription by Oscar Wilde,
1889
General Physical Description note: 26 x 20 cm. Inscribed in Oscar Wilde's hand: "Constance and Cyril Wilde, Nov. 89. To Edgar Saltus."
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 22
Reproductions of Constance Wilde portrait by Cameron Studio and Oscar Wilde portrait by Napoleon Sarony, in
The Standard (New York),
1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-36
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 6
Half-tone reproduction of daguerreotype
undated
General Physical Description note: 14 x 11 cm. Caption on recto (in pencil): "Lady Wilde." Original daguerreotype in possession of
Merlin Holland. Negative in Clark collections.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 8
Cameron Studio, bust portrait inscribed to Arthur Butt,
ca. 1889
General Physical Description note: 24 x 19 cm. Gift of
Mrs. George M. Millard, 1873-1938
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 7
Cameron Studio, bust portrait inscribed to Arthur Fish,
ca. 1889
General Physical Description note: 24 x 19 cm. Inscription, in ink, on recto: To dear Arthur [Fish] from his friend Oscar Wilde. Dated: "15.6.89"
Box Wildeiana 12, item 5
Seated Photograph.
undated
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Note on verso, in pencil: "Photographed on his first trip to America. Very rare!." Oval stamp on verso: George
D. Russell, 125 Tremont Street., Boston. Print numbered, "9."
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 2
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, seated full-length portrait (Sarony #6),
1882
General Physical Description note: 32.5 x 18.5 cm. Print mounted on heavy black board with gilt beveled edges.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 4
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, full-length portrait in knee breeches, Sarony # 12,
1882
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Note on verso, in pencil: "Bought at J. C. Tomlinson sale."
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 5
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, full-length standing portrait in knee breeches, Sarony # 14,
1882
General Physical Description note: 32.5 x 18.5 cm. Print mounted on heavy black board with gilt beveled edges. Note on verso, in pencil: "Very rare!"
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 3
"Oscar Wilde: A Master of Prose Style," reproduction of a photograph from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-92
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 20
Newspaper crossword puzzle with Oscar Wilde's picture in the center
undated
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 3
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, bust portrait, Sarony # 23,
1882
General Physical Description note: 33 x 19 cm. Print mounted on heavy black board with gilt beveled edges. Print numbered, "23." Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 18
Photograph of Oscar Wilde from an unknown magazine
ca 1946
General Physical Description note: Caption: "Oscar Wilde, Oxford undergraduate."
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 30
Standing portrait of Oscar Wilde as a child (reproduction),
1858
General Physical Description note: 12 x 9 cm. Notes on verso of mount: "Oscar Wilde as a child. From a miniature belonging to Robert Baldwin Ross. Please return
this photograph to C.S. Millard, 6, Molyneux House,Molyneux Street, W." The original, which is in the possession of
Merlin Holland , is hand-tinted. Original album mount in 20/14.
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 6
Standing portrait of Oscar Wilde as a child, by unknown photographer,
1858
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-72
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 31
Metropolitan Photo Company, Dublin, photograph of Oscar Wilde as a boy,
ca. 1860
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Date approximate. Identified, in pencil, on verso: "Oscar Wilde, Print no.6016." Negative available
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 12
Seated portrait of Oscar Wilde by
Hills & Saunders
1875 June 2
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Dated in pencil on verso. Space in original album mount numbered #11 (upper right corner). Original album mount
in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 11.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 13
Standing portrait of Oscar Wilde by
Hills & Saunders
1875 June 2
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Dated, in pencil, on verso. Space in original album mount numbered #12 (upper right corner). Original album mount
in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder 11.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 10
Standing portrait of Oscar Wilde by
Hills & Saunders
1876 April 3
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Dated, in pencil on verso. Space in original album mount numbered 20. Original album mount in Wildeiana Box 16/Folder
14.
Box Wildeiana 16, Folder 15
Standing portrait of Oscar Wilde by
Hills & Saunders
1876 April 3
General Physical Description note: 11 x 7 cm. Dated, in pencil, on verso. Space in original album mount numbered #19 (upper left). Original album mount in Wildeiana
Box 16/Folder 14.
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 16
Standing portrait of Oscar Wilde by
Hills & Saunders, from unknown publication,
1876 April 3
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-87
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 11
J. Guggenheim, reproduction of bust portrait, from Robert Harborough Sherard's
Oscar Wilde: the Story of an Unhappy Friendship,
General Physical Description note: 10 x 6 cm black and white lithograph. Original album mount in 19/10.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 39
"Oscar Wilde in 1880," reproduction of Sarony portrait by A.R. Keller and Co., from unknown publication,
1907
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 6
Seated portrait by unknown photographer,
ca. late 1881
General Physical Description note: 14 x 11 cm. A note from Merlin Holland dated 1995 (inserted in folder with photograph) states that Wilde wears the same braided
velvet costume as in photos by Sarony taken in New York, January 1882. Original album mount in 19/7.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 18
Bust Portrait by unknown photographer,
ca. late 1881
General Physical Description note: 14 x 10 cm. In lower right corner: COPYRIGHT Likely taken soon before departure for America because jacket is similar to that
in 1882 Sarony photographs from New York (as per Merlin Holland note of 2 June 1995). Original album mount in 19/17.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 43
Elliott & Fry, standing portrait holding hat and cane,
1881 March 10
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Original album mount in 19/42; same image as 19/44.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 44
Elliott & Fry, standing portrait holding hat and cane,
1881 March 10
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Note, in pencil, on verso: $2.50 Rosenbach 3/8/24 608=Anderson Sale No 1818. Negative available. Same image as
19/43.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 6
Elliott & Fry, standing portrait holding hat and cane,
1881 March 14
General Physical Description note: 15 x 10 cm. Original album mount in 20/5. In Grunwald exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 16
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, standing portrait in knee breeches,
1882
General Physical Description note: image 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Caption: "Oscar Wilde, copyright 1882, by N. Sarony, 27 Union Sqr., NY."
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 33
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, Seated portrait holding a book,
1882
General Physical Description note: Note in pencil on verso: "Copyright 1882, by N. Sarony." White mat cut for this item is housed at the bottom of Box 23.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-3
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 1
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, 3/4 seated bust portrait (Sarony #19) with ANS on verso from Wilde to "Mrs. Story,"
1882
General Physical Description note: black and white; image 16.5 x 10.5 cm. In Grunwald exhibit, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 21
1882
General Physical Description note: Photograph 1 caption: "Oscar Wilde--note femininity in all the features." Photograph 2 caption: "Oscar Wilde--Note sloping
shoulders and rounded contours of head and face."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-33 and Wilde 39-34
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 5
Bust portrait by Napoleon Sarony, from unknown publication,
1882
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-68
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 16
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, Bust portrait reproduced on postcard,
1911
General Physical Description note: 14 x 9 cm black and white lithograph. Postcard from C. V. H. de Rozsnyay to Christopher Millard, 1911 September 5.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 1
Jabez Hughes & Mullins, seated portrait in white suit,
ca 1883
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Inscribed, in ink, on recto: Oscar Wilde. Inscribed, in pencil, on verso: 1885. As per note from Merlin Holland
(June 1995), likely taken in 1883: "Wilde's Neronian haircut was done in 1883 and not continued after his marriage, 1884."
Exhibited at the Grunwald, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 40
"Oscar Wilde, the rankest weed in London's garden of scandal and filth," reproduction of ca. 1883 photograph,
The Standard,
undated
General Physical Description note: 9 x 7 cm, black and white lithograph + matte frame.
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 17
"Oscar Wilde, when in America" by unknown photographer, from unknown publication,
1883
General Physical Description note: Photograph of Oscar Wilde wearing a straw hat
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-90
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 12
Thrupp, R.W., reproduction of bust portrait from Robert Harborough Sherard's
Oscar Wilde: the Story of an Unhappy Friendship,
1884
General Physical Description note: 10 x 6 cm. black and white lithograph. Original album mount in 19/10.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 14
Debenham & Gould, Bournemouth Seated portrait,
1887
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Note in pencil, on verso: 1887; [No.] 21877 Original album mount in 19/15.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 12
Debenham & Gould, Bournemouth, standing portrait wearing a cape,
1887
General Physical Description note: Photographic print: black and white; image 17 x 11 cm. Original album mount in 20/13.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 37
W & D Downey, standing portrait with arms crossed,
1889 May 23
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm. Note, in pencil, on verso: "Taken May 23d 1889." Negative available. Original album mount in 19/36.
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 5
Reproduction of W & D Downey portrait of Oscar Wilde, from an unknown newspaper,
1889 [May 23]
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-129
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 33
W & D Downey, standing portrait of Oscar Wilde holding gloves,
1889 May 23
General Physical Description note: 17 x 11 cm, mounted Note, in pencil, on verso: "Taken May 23d 1889. [No.] 31383." Original album mount in 19/32.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-118
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 18
Reproduction of W & D Downey portrait of Oscar Wilde, from an unknown publication,
1889 May 28
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-129
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 24
W & D Downey, seated portrait in wooden chair,
1889 May 28
General Physical Description note: 14 x 10 cm. Note on matte frame: Print no.31383-a original album mount in 19/23.
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 6
Reproduction of Ellis & Walery bust length portrait, from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-94
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 22
Ellis & Walery, bust portrait,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 15 x 10 cm. Note on verso of mount: "March 1892" Print no.10650-5 Original album mount in 19/21.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 35
Ellis & Walery, bust portrait,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 15 x 10 cm. Note on verso of mount: Print no. 10650-4 Original album mount in 19/34.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 28
Ellis & Walery, standing portrait with hand in pocket,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 15 x 11 cm. Note on verso: Print no.10650-8 Original album mount in 19/29.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 20
Ellis & Walery, standing half-length portrait with cigarette,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 15 x 11 cm. Note on verso: Print no. 106509 Original album mount in 19/19.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 26
Ellis & Walery, standing portrait in fur coat with cane,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 14 x 11 cm. Inscribed in upper left corner: Oscar Wilde. Note, in pencil, on verso: "From Elkin Matthews collection." Note
on verso: Print no.10650-7 Original album mount in 19/25; same image as 19/27.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 27
Ellis & Walery, standing portrait in fur coat with cane,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 14 x 11 cm. mounted. Note on verso: Print no.10650-7. Same image as 19/26.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 8
Ellis & Walery, standing portrait with cane and gloves,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: 15 x 11 cm. On verso of mount: Print no. 10650-10 Original album mount in 19/9.
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 2
"Oscar Wilde, 1893," by unknown photographer from unknown publication,
1893
General Physical Description note: Inscribed in pencil in lower right: "Gilman Oxford"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-93
Box Wildeiana 16, item 13
Sitting at a table, outdoors.
1897
General Physical Description note: Photograph by unknown photographer. 9 x 9 cm. Snapshots taken in Naples. Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 38
Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918, snapshot of Wilde in Italy,
ca. 1897
General Physical Description note: 8 x 6 cm, mounted. Inscription, in pencil, on verso: "Oscar Wilde in Rome 1900." Negative available. Probably taken in 1897
in Naples, as per Rupert Hart-Davis.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 3
1900 March
General Physical Description note: 19 x 15 cm. Inscribed, in pencil, on verso (in Ross's hand): "Oscar Wilde in Rome, March 1900, from a photograph taken by
Robert Ross." Note from Merlin Holland dated 6/1995 included in folder.
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 10
"Wilde after death," photograph by Robert Baldwin Ross, reproduction from unknown publication,
1900 November 30
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-76
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 4
Posthumous photograph of Wilde on his deathbed,
1900 November 30
General Physical Description note: 9 x 12 cm. Variously attributed to
Robert Baldwin Ross or
Maurice Gilbert. Inscription, in ink, on verso: "Photo taken by Robert Ross of Oscar Wilde 2 hours after death, by flashlight. Nov 30th 1900."
Stamped, in ink, on verso: To the appointment to T.M. The King and Queen, William E. Gray, 92, Queen's Rd., Bayswater, W.
Fine Art Photographer. Negative available. With envelope inscribed in ink: "Photo of Oscar Wilde taken by Robert Ross his
endorsement on the back." In Grunwald exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 14, item 17
Taken 2 hours after death.
1900 November 30
General Physical Description note: 9 x 12 cm. Copy 2. Variously attributed to
Robert Baldwin Ross or
Maurice Gilbert . Stamped, in ink, on verso: "To the appointment to T.M. The King and Queen, William E. Gray, 92, Queen's Rd., Bayswater,
W. Fine Art Photographer." Negative available.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 35
Reproduction of photograph from
Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit,
New York Herald Tribune,
1946 July 21
General Physical Description note: Caption: "Oscar Wilde (the aesthetic period)." Photograph by unknown photographer.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 19
Oscar Wilde wearing a cape
1948 December
General Physical Description note: Clipping from
Vogue, Christmas 1948.
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 15
The World of Oscar Wilde: Library of Congress 1995 calendar. Photograph by Library of Congress.
1994
General Physical Description note: Contains 12 photographs of Wilde by
Napoleon Sarony and memorabilia such as reproductions of handbills for Wilde's lectures and caricatures from newspapers satirizing his delivery
of the same.
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 1
"Oscar in two editions: The American and The Fin-de-Siecle--English," from unknown publication,
undated
General Physical Description note: From photos by Sarony and W and D Downey.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-123
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 3
"An original, hitherto unpublished portrait of Oscar Wilde, now given in a book,
Modern Paris, by Mr. Robert Sherard, which Werner Laurie has published..."
The Book Monthly
1912 February
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-48
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 16
"Oscar Wilde at Oxford, 1878," by "J. Guggenheim," from unknown publication,
1878
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-89
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 16
"Oscar Wilde when at Oxford" by "J. Guggenheim," from unknown publication,
1878
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-88
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 17
Reproduction of Ellis and Walery portrait on Russian postcard,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-116
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 1
Reproduction of Ellis & Walery portrait from unknown publication,
1892 March
General Physical Description note: Inscribed in lower right: "10650-9."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-44
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 4
Reproduction of Alfred Ellis bust length portrait from unknown publication,
ca 1890s?
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-29
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 17
Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918, Photograph of Wilde after death,
1900 November 30
General Physical Description note: black and white; image 8.5 x 10.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-117
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 4
"Is it necessary to settle anything today?," photograph of Wilde from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-49
Mixed materials Wildeiana 9, Folder 22
Reproductions of Constance Wilde portrait by Cameron Studio and Oscar Wilde portrait by Napoleon Sarony, in
The Standard (New York),
1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-36
Wilde, W.R. (William Robert), 1815-1876
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 6
Portrait by unknown photographer, from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-71
Box Wildeiana 15, Folder 12
Portrait by
Chancellor & Son
1875
General Physical Description note: 21 x 14 cm. Inscribed on recto: "Your faithful friend, W. Wilde." Previously mounted on an album page by Christopher Millard
(this page now in Wildeiana Box 15/folder 14). Included in Grunwald Center (UCLA) exhibition, 1999.
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 4
Postage stamp with photograph of Oscar Wilde,
after 1892
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-28
Portraits 1.2
1878-1940, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains serious portraits of Wilde and his immediate circle. The subseries is arranged by the artist who rendered
the original portrait. For each item, additional identifying information, regarding poses, titles, approximate dates, and
subject matter--when available--is also included.
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 8
Boyd, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1854-1930, Full length portrait of Oscar Wilde with a fan to his right
ca 1880s
General Physical Description note: Reproduction of a pen and ink drawing. Signed "Twym," a pseudonym of A.S. Boyd.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-5
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 8
Cleland, T.M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964. Print of Wilde portrait, from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-105
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 12
Downey, William, Wilde photograph on cover of
Modern Society,
1914 February 21
General Physical Description note: Illustration for the book review of
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, by Frank Harris, reviewed within the magazine.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-15
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 13
Evans, John W. India proof of portrait of Wilde by James E. Kelly
1882
General Physical Description note: From a drawing by
James Edward Kelly, 1855-1933 drawn during Wilde's American tour, wood engraved by Evans. India proof: black and white; image 18 x 14 cm, on sheet 29 x
21 cm. Inscribed in pencil: "John W. Evans." With bookseller catalog description. Purchase, 1947 (MS.1947.002).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-10
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 20
Fox, Louise. Woodcut portrait of Oscar Wilde,
1919
General Physical Description note: 9.5 x 8 cm, matted to 32.5 x 25.5 cm. Inscribed in lower right: "L. Fox 1919."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-114
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 7
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909. "The private view, "
Academy Notes,
1883
General Physical Description note: Drawing of Oscar Wilde with British celebrities.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-73
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 3
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925. "The private view," distributed with the Christmas number of
The World,
1882 December
General Physical Description note: Print: col. lithograph; image 36 x 50 cm. Oscar Wilde and American celebrities, modeled after the drawing by
William Powell Frith, 1819-1909 . Original page on which this item was mounted in the Christopher Millard scrapbook is included with the item in 23/3.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-10
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 4
Hall, Sydney Prior. "Mr. Oscar Wilde in court,"
The Graphic
1889 May 16
General Physical Description note: The original is a pencil portrait drawn while Oscar Wilde watched the testimony of Thomas Miller Beach, a government spy,
and is held by the National Portrait Gallery (UK).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-30
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 19
Kelly, James Edward, 1855-1933, Portrait of Wilde seated, from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-112
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 13
Kelly, James Edward, 1855-1933, reproduction of Wilde drawing, from Robert Harborough Sherard's
Oscar Wilde: the Story of an Unhappy Friendship.
General Physical Description note: 10 x 6 cm black and white lithograph. Original album mount in 19/10.
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 1
Kelly, James Edward, 1855-1933. Photograph of bas-relief based on 1882 drawings,
Craftsman,
1907 February
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-110
Box Wildeiana 11, item 12
Lynch, Ilbery. Portrait of Oscar Wilde.
1894
General Physical Description note: Print; image 12.5 x 14 cm, on sheet 19 x 18.5 cm. Inscription: "Oscar Wilde by Ilbery Lynch."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-38
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 2
Miles, George Francis, 1852-1891, Original pencil drawing of Oscar Wilde,
undated
General Physical Description note: Image 8.5 x 7 cm, pasted on sheet 43.5 x 34 cm. Reproduced on p.50 of Vyvyan Holland's pictorial biography of Oscar Wilde.
Mat signed in lower right: "Vyvyan Holland." From the collection of
Vyvyan Beresford Holland, 1886-1967.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 2
Miles, George Francis, 1852-1891 Photographic reproduction of OW portrait by
Hollyer, Frederick, 1837-1933,
1895
General Physical Description note: 13 x 11 cm, black and white lithographic reproduction. Reproduced as the frontispiece to
The Library of William Andrews Clark Jr.: Wilde and Wildeiana v.5 (1931). [Z1015 C596g v.5] Negative available 1995 note from Merlin Holland included in folder.
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 4
Miles, George Francis, 1852-1891 Proof print of Oscar Wilde portrait,
1913 May 5
General Physical Description note: Proof: black and white; image 14.5 x 10.5 cm, on sheet 39.5 x 28.5 cm. Caption: "Ascribed to FM from a drawing in possession
of
Robert Baldwin Ross ." Reproduced by Photographische Gesellschaft in Berlin.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-113
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 3
Miles, George Francis, 1852-1891, intaglio print of Oscar Wilde portrait,
undated
General Physical Description note: Image 8.7 x 6.5 cm, on sheet of paper 25.5 x 48 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-3
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 23
Paque, Oliver, Wilde smoking and holding a cane in left hand
undated
General Physical Description note: Reproduction.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-37
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 12
Passhe, Edgar. Reproduction of pencil drawing of Oscar Wilde,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-86
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 9
Patlagean, Numa, Photographs of clay bust,
1914
General Physical Description note: Photographic prints: black and white; image 21.5 x 16.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-75 and Wilde 39-115
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 20
Pennington, R. G. Harper, 1854-1920. reproduction of Wilde portrait, from an unknown publication
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-111
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 1
Pilotell, Georges, 1845-1918, Possible portrait of Constance Wilde on the cover of
The Sketch,
1880 February 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-70
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 5
Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945. Pencil portrait of Wilde,
1891
General Physical Description note: image 38 x 28 cm., mounted in matte, 56 x 40.5 cm
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 7
Rothenstein, William, Sir, 1872-1945, Pen portrait,
ca. 1930
General Physical Description note: Original drawing: pen and ink; image 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-42
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 7
Serret, Charles, Pencil drawing of Oscar Wilde,
1880
General Physical Description note: image 34 x 27 cm. Inscribed to right of image; "Charles Serret, Janvier 1880." On verso of frame: "Bought by Monsieur Pierre
Berès, bookdealer, from P. Joubin, the bibliograph of E. Delacroix. Sold by Berès to Princess de Bassiano. Upon her death,
the portrait became part of her estate which was handled by Pierre Berès, Inc. and sold to the Clark Library in August 1940."
Also includes a 1940 letter from Berès, Inc. to H. Richard Archer (of the Clark Library) describing the portrait, hoping for
a sale.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-139
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 5
Spare, Austin Osman, 1886-1956, Photograph of portrait of
Andre S. Raffalovich, 1864-1934
1910
General Physical Description note: Photographic print: black and white; image 24.5 x 22 cm, mounted on cardboard 28 x 33 cm. Purchase, 1953 (MS.1953.012).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-7
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 14
Spindler, Walter E.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, 3/4 profile pencil sketch.
1895
General Physical Description note: Pencil drawing, 16.5 x 9.5 cm. Inscription in lower left: "WS Nov 1895." Purchase, 1950 (MS.1950.042)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-9
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 9
Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946. Portrait of Oscar Wilde (etching)
1891
General Physical Description note: image 19.5 x 14.5 cm, on sheet 37.5 x 15.5 cm. Date approximate.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-4
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 14
Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946. Portrait of Oscar Wilde (original drawing)
1891
General Physical Description note: Original drawing signed by Oscar Wilde (?). Image 30 x 22 cm; mounted on board with original picture hanging hooks on verso.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-15
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 12
Struck, Hermann, 1876-1944. Portrait of Oscar Wilde (etching)
before 1944
General Physical Description note: image 15 x 10.5 cm. Photograph of this image in Wildeiana Box 1/folder 7
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 9
Struck, Hermann, 1876-1944. Reproduction of portrait of Oscar Wilde,
1922?
General Physical Description note: Caption: "Oscar Wilde nach einer Radierung von Hermann Struck."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-108
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 3
Unknown person. Portrait of Oscar Wilde with shamrock, after photograph by Napoleon Sarony
undated
General Physical Description note: Etching of Wildeiana 3/ Folder 2. Black and white; image 17.5 x 15.5 cm, on thick cardboard. Purchased from Grafton 12/5/29
(MS.1929.007).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-13
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 4
Unknown person. Portrait of Oscar Wilde with a shamrock, after photograph by Napoleon Sarony
undated
General Physical Description note: Etching of Wildeiana 3/Folder 2.17.5 x 15.5 cm. Purchased from Grafton 12/5/29 (MS.1929.007)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-14
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 16
"Oscar Wilde in 1887: Author's sketch," from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-109
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 13
"Mr. Oscar Wilde," from unknown publication,
undated
General Physical Description note: Pasted on page with different size reproduction of same portrait.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-18
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 13
"Oscar Wilde. By permission of the
Pall Mall Magazine, from unknown publication,
undated
General Physical Description note: Pasted on page with different size reproduction of same portrait.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-17
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 7
Portrait on blank trade card by unknown artist,
ca 1882
General Physical Description note: After an 1882 photograph by Napoleon Sarony. Chromolithograph; image 14.5 x 8.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-1
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 17
"To be truly esthetic buy your ice cream and confections at J.N. Piercy's 115 Court St. Binghamton, N.Y.," with portrait after
Sarony by unknown artist,
ca. 1882
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 2
Portrait of Oscar Wilde with a shamrock, after a Napoleon Sarony photograph
undated
General Physical Description note: Original painting: watercolor; image 21 x 16.5 cm. Purchased from Grafton 12/5/29 (MS.1929.007)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-12
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 9
Portrait of Oscar Wilde with shamrock, after a Napoleon Sarony photograph (print)
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-106
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 7
Portrait of Wilde with "faked" notation,
undated
General Physical Description note: Print: black and white; image 34 x 21.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-107
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 13
"Oscar Wilde in the year he won the Newdigate," image with auction catalog description of item,
General Physical Description note: After Guggenheim photo.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-81
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 12
"Oscar Wilde in the year he won the Newdigate," reproduction from unknown publication,
General Physical Description note: After Guggenheim photo. Verso: Formerly in the possession of J. Jacobs, Edgware Rd. W.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-80
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 15
"Oscar Wilde in the year he won the Newdigate"
1878?
General Physical Description note: After Guggenheim photo. Pencil drawing on cardboard; image 17.5 x 14 cm, unframed. Inscription: "Yours Oscar Wilde, Magdalen,
1878." Reference: Mason, S. (i.e. Millard, C.)
Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde, p. 16. Purchase, 1974 (MS.1974.004).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-26
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 10-11
Reproductions of Oscar Wilde drawing from
Story of an Unhappy Friendship,
undated
General Physical Description note: Based on the J. Guggenheim photo (Oxford 1878). 21 x 14 cm. 19 copies. Inscription, in ink, on verso of 2.18p: "These pictures
are drawings from a photo." and "the inscription is a forgery -- as many copies were called in and the illustration cancelled
-- appeared in a Stuart Mason,
Bibliography of the Poems of Oscar Wilde. See Stuart Mason,
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, p. 569. For the original pencil drawing, see Wildeiana 1
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 10
"The Apostle of the Aesthetes,"
The Hour Cartoon Supplement,
1881 September 3
General Physical Description note:
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-13
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 25
"Oscar Wilde, the apostle of aestheticism,"
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
1882 January 21
General Physical Description note: After Napoleon Sarony photograph.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-43
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 6
Unknown person, Watercolor portrait, after Napoleon Sarony photograph,
after 1882
General Physical Description note: watercolor and pencil; image 11 x 12 cm, on sheet 25 x 22 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-6
Box Wildeiana 19, Folder 41
"Society Bijou portraits, 116.--Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
Society,
1885 March 21
General Physical Description note: 24 x 16 cm. Reproduction by Sprague and Co., London
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 11
"Society Bijou portraits, 116.--Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
Society,
1885 March 21
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-14
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 8
"Society Bijou portraits, 116.--Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
Society,
1885 March 21
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-79
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 15
Ellis and Walery, portrait of Wilde with one hand in pocket, from unknown publication,
March 1892
General Physical Description note: Inscription in lower right: "10650-8."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-20
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 14
"Mr Oscar Wilde, from a portrait by Alfred Ellis,"
The Sketch
1895 January 9
General Physical Description note: From a photograph by Alfred Ellis. In
The Sketch.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-19
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 19
Watercolor portrait of Wilde by unknown artist,
ca. 1920
General Physical Description note: Watercolor on card; image oval 31 x 23 cm. Not after 1924.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-119
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 9
Print of watercolor portrait of Wilde by unknown artist,
ca. 1920
General Physical Description note: 26 x 22 cm, colored art print. Frontispiece to
The Library of William Andrews Clark Jr.: Wilde and Wildeiana: The Portrait Book of Oscar Wilde (1923). [Z 1015 C596h]
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 7
Photograph of Harper Pennington portrait of Oscar Wilde, by William E. Gray
1881
General Physical Description note: Photographic print: black and white image. 37 x 30 cm. mounted on board.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-25
Sketches, Cartoons, and Caricatures 1.3
1874-1946, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains casual sketches, cartoons, caricatures, and other drawings of Wilde and his immediate circle. The
subseries is arranged by the artist creating the drawing and then by subject matter or title. Additional identifying information,
regarding poses, titles, and subject matter is also included.
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 6
A.C., "The worst of Wilde,"
Judy, or, The London Serio-Comic Journal,
1882 March 8
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-47
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 6
A.C., "The worst of Wilde,"
The Daily Graphic
1882 April 4
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-51
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 9
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent, 1872-1898. page proof for published version of "Oscar Wilde at work (il ne faut pas le regarder)"
General Physical Description note: Page proof included in
The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley,
(1925)1893.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-38
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 16
Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent, 1872-1898. reproduction of "Oscar Wilde at work (il ne faut pas le regarder)" from unknown publication,
General Physical Description note: Used in
The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley,
(1925)1893. Original drawing was executed ca.1893.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-103
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 12
"Days with celebrities (32) : Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
Moonshine,
1882
General Physical Description note: 24 x 18 cm.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 3
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956. Caricature of Oscar Wilde smoking opium on a boat.
1891.
General Physical Description note: Photographic print of image from back end paper of Beerbohm's personal copy of Oscar Wilde's
Intentions (1891).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-17
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 6
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956, "Personal Remarks: Oscar Wilde,"
The Pick-Me-Up
1894 September 22
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-35
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 11
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956. "Sims Reeve," proof,
Pick-Me-Up,
1894
General Physical Description note: On verso: "Front, proof, redrawn and published in
Pick-Me-Up, 22/4/94." Formerly in DR-7N
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-41
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 19
Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956, "The new culture,' in
The Oxford Magazine,
1893 May 18
General Physical Description note: 28.5 x 22.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-39
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 8
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "An ideal Lord Mayor's show, "
Time,
1880 November
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-74
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 19
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "Brother Jonathan after viewing Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
The Entr'acte
1882 January 21
General Physical Description note: "Wal! England has sent us out many curious things; but this whips 'em all. Take it away!"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-55
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 13
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899, "Jonathan Wild"
1882
General Physical Description note: Magazine clipping, 21 x 17.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-21
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 5
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "Brother Willie.- 'Never mind, Oscar; other great men have had their dramatic failures!'"
The Entr'acte
1883 September 1
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-1
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 11, Graphic materials Clark Library cubicles
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "The Oscars"
1880s?
General Physical Description note: Pen and ink; image 7 x 14 cm., in gilded frame 27 x 35 cm. Date uncertain. Inscription above: "Oscar Wilde, Clayton, Browning."
Photocopy of image in Wildeiana Box 1/Folder 11; original art work in Clark Library researcher cubicle.
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 16
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "Mr. William Wilde: The stalls,"
The Entr'acte
1881 March 26
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-21
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 20
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "Quite too utterly ecstatic,"
The Entr'acte
1881 March 26
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-32
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 6
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. Caricature of Wilde with reproduction of Wilde poem to
Luther Munday, Luther, b. 1857
1891
General Physical Description note: Magazine clippings pasted onto page, 41 x 28 cm. Facsimile of an "unpublished" poem by Oscar Wilde addressed "To my friend
Luther Munday" and a caricature of Oscar Wilde by "A.B." [Alfred Bryan].
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-22
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 8
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "Our captious critic,
Lady Windermere's Fan,
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
1892 April 9
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-54
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 10
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "Back Numbers (91) -- Oscar Wylde; St. James's Theatre, March 1892,"
Moonshine,
1892 April 16
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-99
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 5
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "The lights o' London," from unknown publication,
1881 December 21
General Physical Description note: Caricature with a poem by Edmund Yates, "Ego upto snuffibus poeta."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-50
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 18
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899. "The Settle of Odd Volumes: 'United once a month to form a perfect sette,'"
Daily Graphic,
1892 June 6
General Physical Description note: (2 copies)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-124
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 9
Cruikshank, George, Jr., "Ye awfully utter & Ye utterly awful,"
A book of ye olde English fayre, (Manchester: Printed by George Falkner & Sons)
1881
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-56
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 9
ca 1882
General Physical Description note: Color lithograph; image 27.5 x 44 cm, pasted on heavy board.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-1
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 1
Daragnès, Gabriel, 1886-1950. Original drawing for
Ballade de la geole de Reading, published in 1918 by Pichon,
1918.
General Physical Description note: 1 drawing: ink and wash on paper; image 8.5 x 7.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-2
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 9
Duval, E. B. "Strike me with a sunflower" (caricature of Oscar Wilde)
1882
General Physical Description note: Caricature of Oscar Wilde with an oversized sunflower. Lithograph: col.; image 12 x 8 cm. With this: Envelope from the Union
Square Book Shop with dealer description of item. Envelope inscription: "Property of Wm. A. Clark Library, 2205 W. Adams Blvd.,
Los Angeles 7." Purchase, 1927 (MS.1927.005).
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 3
Duval, E.B., 6 caricatures of Oscar Wilde in ethnic dress,
ca. 1882
General Physical Description note: Titles: 1) Begorra and I believe I am Oscar himself. 2) I vas aesthetic aint it. 3) For sale. 4) Ise gwine for to wuship dat
lily kase it sembles me. 5) No likee to callee me johnnee, callee me Oscar. >5 mounted colored lithographs. Images each 12
x 8 cm., mounted and matted to 43 x 33 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-34
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 11
Eaton, W. G. 'Utterly utter quadrille,"
1881
General Physical Description note: Print: col. lithograph; image 35 x 25.5 cm. (London: Charles Sheard). Same image as 13/13. Front cover for sheet music (presumably).
White mat cut for this item is housed in the bottom of Box 23.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-5
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 13
Eaton, W. G. "Utterly utter quadrille,"
The Judge,
1883
General Physical Description note: Four individuals holding hands in a theater lobby; posters of Wilde, Whistler and Rossetti in background; sunflower, lily
at margins. 1 print: col. chromolithograph; image 35 x 25.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-85
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 21
Ford, Paul. Private lives [comic strip].
1946 November 15
General Physical Description note: In
The Los Angeles Times.
Mixed materials Wildeiana 11, Folder 18
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925, caricatures accompanying "An Ideal Husband" review,
Lika Joko,
1895 January 12
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 13
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925. "The Mediation of Cunninghame Graham" and "Under the Reformers' Tree,"
Yuletide,
1892
General Physical Description note: Prints on recto & verso: col. lithographs; image each 24 x 22.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-126
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 15
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925. "Strange faces" and "The Old Lot Go,"
Yuletide,
1892
General Physical Description note: col. lithographs; image each 24 x 22.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-125
Box Wildeiana Portfolio, item 6
G.E.H. A thing of beauty not a joy forever: rise and fall of a "Vera" Wilde aesthete.
1883.
General Physical Description note: In
The Judge. Reproduction: chromolithograph; image 26 x 33.5 cm. Formerly in DR-6N
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-37
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 2
Kendrick, Charles. Newspaper advertisement for
Ye soul agonies in ye life of Oscar Wilde,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-130
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 10
Unknown artist Drawing of Oscar Wilde titled "The Author of Lady Windermere's Fan"
undated
General Physical Description note: Pencil drawing with gouache; image 27 x 19 cm, matted 36.5 x 29 cm. Initialed in bottom left: "FM" or "JM"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-24
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 17
May, Phil, 1864-1903, "Great Expectations!", from unknown publication
1895.
General Physical Description note: Illustration of a crowd at the Haymarket Theatre for a production of
An Ideal Husband.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-104
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 2
May, Phil, 1864-1903. "Phil May: a memoir by his first London editor,"
The Sketch,
1903
General Physical Description note: A reproduction of Phil May's first social caricature from 1885.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-64
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 6
Morehen, Horace. "All fools' day-April 1st,"
The Illustrated and Dramatic Sporting News,
1883 March 31.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-127
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 4
O'Hea, John Fergus, ca. 1838-1922 (aka Spex), "A Wilde (K)night in Ireland's eye,"
Ireland's Eye,
1874
General Physical Description note: Caricature of W.R. Wilde. Color lithograph; image 33 x 20.5 cm, pasted on card. Also included is an ANS from
Crone, John S. (John Smyth), 1858-1945 to Christopher Millard regarding this caricature.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-11
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 1
Pellegrini, Carlo. Caricature of Oscar Wilde from
Vanity Fair
1884 May 24.
General Physical Description note: Lithograph: col.; image 32 x 19 cm. Lithography by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son.
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 8
Pellegrini, Carlo. Caricature of Oscar Wilde from
Vanity Fair
1884 May 24
General Physical Description note: Lithograph: col.; image 32 x 19 cm, mounted on cardboard. Lithography by Vincent Brooks, Day and Son.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-5
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 12
Pellegrini, Carlo. Caricature of Oscar Wilde from
Vanity Fair,
1884 May 24
General Physical Description note: image 32 x 19 cm. White mat cut for this item is housed in the bottom of Box 23.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-4
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 6
Pipeshank, George, "Whistlerian symphonies swearing out a member,"
1883
General Physical Description note: Print: col. lithograph; image 44.5 x 57 cm. Removed from MS.WILDE UNCAT DR.7N MILLARD SCRAPBOOK, 07/1992.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-7
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 6
Sabbath, Emmanuel. Caricature of Oscar Wilde, after Augustus John
1925
General Physical Description note: Photographic print of a pencil drawing: black and white; image 24 x 17.5 cm. Date uncertain. On verso in ink: "Sketched from
memory during dinner on the back of a menu card for his table neighbor, Frau Horstmann, Edouard Roditi collection, Paris."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-11
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 18
Thompson, Alfred. "The bard of beauty," original ink drawing
1900.
General Physical Description note: image 25 x 18 cm. Original watercolor costume designs for Robin Hood on verso; verso inscription in pencil: "Rosenbach 3/8/24
608=Anderson Sale No. 1818."
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 56
Thompson, Alfred. "The bard of beauty," In "Songsters of the day,"
Time,
1880 April
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-24
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 14
Thompson, Alfred. "The bard of beauty," In "Songsters of the day,"
Time,
1880 April
General Physical Description note: Pasted on album page.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-25
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 16
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901. Portrait of Oscar Wilde
undated
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine/newspaper. Caption: "Oscar Wilde, 1895."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-29
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 15
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901, "Oscar Wilde, from a pen drawing by Toulouse-Lautrec, From
The 'Hyperion Almanack,"
JP's Magazine,
1911 June
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-102
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 17
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901. Portrait of Oscar Wilde
1940 March 24
General Physical Description note: Clipping from
The New York Times Book Review. Caption: "Oscar Wilde. From the portrait by Toulouse-Lautrec."
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 2
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 1864-1901. Portrait of Oscar Wilde from unknown magazine
ca 1980s
General Physical Description note: Caption: "Oscar Wilde was a friend of Lautrec. Yet during Wilde's famous court trial in 1895, Lautrec caricatured the author's
jaded and flabby appearance."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-28
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 5
Unknown artist, "The poet and the puppets at the Comedy Theatre last night, "
1892
General Physical Description note: Illustrations of Mr. Hawtrey as the poet [O---r W---e], Mr. Brookfield as 'The Prince of Denmark,' [Mr. J---e] and Miss Venne
as Ophelia. From an unknown magazine. Originally included with a review of the one act play that preceded a performance of
Lady Windermere's Fan [now missing].
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-42
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 2
"A wild'e' forecast: The author's call,"
Pick-Me-Up
1892 June 4
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-46
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 24
"A wild'e' forecast :The author's call," from
Pick-Me-Up (photographic copies)
1892 June 4
General Physical Description note: 2 Photographic prints: black and white; images 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Signed cartoon; signature illegible. These items are prints
of Box 7A, Item 42.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-16
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 24
"O'Hooligan's 'Aesthetic Decoration,"
Moonshine?
1890
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-42
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 24
"A Miss is as Good as a (S)mile,"
Moonshine?,
1890 July 26
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-41
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 24
"According to the
Pall Mall Gazette, aestheticism has broken out again, and in the interval since the last outbreak its devotees have grown mortal and stout,"
Moonshine ?
1890 December 18
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-40
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 5
"Aesthetics v. athletics: Torpid Week,"
1881
General Physical Description note: Caricature of Oscar Wilde. Caption: "Torpid Week 1881. Aesthete: 'This is indeed a form of death, and entirely incompatible
with any belief in the immortality of the soul.'" Drawing: pen and ink; image 13 x 22 cm, mounted on cardboard 20 x 29.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-18
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 14
"Aesthetics v. athletics: Torpid week," (reproduction)
1881
General Physical Description note: Photographic print: black and white; image 12 x 15.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-57
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 11
Unknown artist. Days with celebrities (47) from
Moonshine
1882.
General Physical Description note: 41 x 28 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-20
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 3
"Days with celebrities. (46). Mr. Ruskin,"
Moonshine,
1882 May 6
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-131
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 15
"The modern St. Valentine," from unknown publication,
1880
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-59
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 7
"Oscar at the shrine of St. Nicotine," from unknown magazine,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-52
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 10
"Prose" by unknown artist,
Judy, or the London Serio-Comic Journal,
1886 December 1
General Physical Description note: Caricature of Oscar Wilde and a woman (Constance?) in conversation. Caption: Little wifey.--Then there were two great painters,
and two great authors, and an eminent tragedian, and -- you! What a gathering together of congenial souls! He.--Yes! Rather
too many of us, I thought, when there was only dinner enough for four."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-40
Box Wildeiana 3, Folder 12
Unknown artist. Some Easter eggs.
1882
General Physical Description note: Magazine clipping, 41 x 28 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-19
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 14
"Two of the best abused phantoms in England,"
1883
General Physical Description note: Photographic print: black and white; image 16 x 12 cm. On verso, in pencil: "Bowyer Nicholas Ball prize pon 1883".
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-58
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 8
1894 July 14
General Physical Description note: From Millard scrapbook. Formerly in DR-7N.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-36
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 18
Series of 3 caricatures (photographic reproduction)
undated
General Physical Description note: Captions: 1) We go to carry culture to a continent! 2) We are 'disappointed' in the Atlantic Ocean. 3) The sympathetic nature
of modern poetry can be realized in private than in public.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-4
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 9
Four caricatures related to Wilde's return from America, from an unknown British paper,
ca 1883?
General Physical Description note: Captions: "Our Oscar as he was when we loaned him to America;" "Our Oscar as he appears on being returned to us!;" "The American
lady who purchased our Oscar's tresses and 'banged the chignon' with them;" "Frightful foreshadowing of our Oscar's future
should he continue to cut his hair and resume the knee breeches."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-6, 39-7, 39-8, 39-9
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 3
"How utter" (original drawing)
before 1924
General Physical Description note: Caricature of Oscar Wilde with lilies. Pen & ink drawing; image 25 x 17.5 cm, pasted on board 33 x 25 cm. Not later than 1924.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-4
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 18
"How utter" (photographic reproduction)
undated
Also available on microfilm:
On verso, typed: "Cartoon published at Oxford about 1881-82."
Wilde 39-26
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 10
"How utter" (photographic reproduction)
1881
General Physical Description note: On verso, typed: "Cartoon published at Oxford about 1881-82."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-69
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 4
Unknown artist. Portrait of Oscar Wilde in pencil with watercolor
undated
General Physical Description note: Pencil with faint coloring; image 16 x 13 cm. Pencil sketches of profiles on verso. Gift of Peter Murray Hill, 1950 (MS.1950.041)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-8
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 16
"Guys of the period," from unknown publication,
1881
General Physical Description note: Caricature portraying Oscar Wilde as "The too too guy."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-60
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 10
Unknown artist. Caricature on lined paper of Oscar Wilde holding a flower
1882
General Physical Description note: Pencil on lined notebook paper; image 25.5 x 20 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-23
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 6
"Oscar Wilde in America," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
1882
General Physical Description note: Collage of caricatures of Wilde. Captions: "Let me tell you the reason why we love the lily and the sunflower." "Satire is
the homage which ignorance pays to genius." "An aesthetic reception." These caricatures were also published in Lloyd Lewis
Oscar Wilde Discovers America (1936).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-2
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 7
"Society's hopes and fears. Hope no.2--Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
Society,
1882 January 18
General Physical Description note: 'Let me play the lion too; I will roar, that I will do any man's heart good to hear me.'--Scene II, Act I,
Midsummer Night's Dream.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-3
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 4
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899, "'Mr. Oscar Wilde will shortly appear on the stage as Romeo.'--American paper,"
The Entr'acte
1883 March 31
General Physical Description note: In
The entr'acte.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-128
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 11
Bryan, Alfred, 1852-1899, Caricature of OW playing the harp, illustration above "The last voyage of Lemuel Gulliver: touching the purpose and manner
of the voyage," from the Christmas number of
The World
1883 December
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-83
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 3
"Our Captious Critic: Our derby tip: Oscar Wylde's new hat!,"
The Illustrated and Dramatic Sporting News,
1884 May 24
General Physical Description note: In
The Illustrated and Dramatic Sporting News.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-65
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 5
"Our Captious Critic: At the healtheries, Oscar in China,"
The Illustrated and Dramatic Sporting News,
1884 August 9
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-67
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 2
"No. 52. On the brain--Mr. Oscar Wilde,"
Lika Joko,
1894 or 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-45
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 1
Sketch of Oscar Wilde,
Westminster Budget,
1895 January 11
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-122
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 20
"Mr. Oscar Wilde Again,"
Lika Joko,
1895 February 23
General Physical Description note: "Oscar Wilde's Valentine" and "Mr. Oscar Wilde personifying his own play. 'The figure is more than a little weak in the legs.'"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-62, 39-63
Theatrical Productions 1.4
1883-1998, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains materials relating to the production of plays and films centering on materials by or about
Oscar Wilde . It is divided into two further subseries: 1.4.1, which covers productions of Wilde's work, and 1.4.2, which covers theatrical
works based on Wilde himself or on his life.
Theatrical Productions of Wilde's Work 1.4.1
1883-1998, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes notes, reviews, articles, and memorabilia relating to the theatrical production of Wilde's works,
and movies and plays based on Wilde's works. The series is arranged by the title of Wilde's work and, within title groupings,
by the date of the production.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 25
Theater program and other materials for the Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, Minnesota) production at the Wadsworth
Theater, Los Angeles,
1992 January 18
General Physical Description note: Gift of Sergio T. Morita, 1992 (MS.1992.002).
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 26
Boudoir Theatre, U.K., production announcement,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-1
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 12
Review for the German translation of The Duchess of Padua from an unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-133
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 27
Theater program for production starring Miss Gale [
Minna Gale Haynes, 1869-1944], at the Chestnut Street Opera House (Springfield, Massachusetts)
1891 August 31
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-4
Note
Purchase, 1956 (MS.1956.007)
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 27
Theater program for production starring Miss Gale [
Minna Gale Haynes, 1869-1944], at the Gilmore's Opera House (Springfield, Massachusetts).
1891 November 20
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-3
Note
Purchase, 1956 (MS.1956.007)
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 27
Theater program for production starring Miss Gale [
Minna Gale Haynes, 1869-1944], at Col. Sinn's New Park Theatre (Brooklyn, New York).
1891 December 14
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-2
Note
Purchase, 1956 (MS.1956.007)
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 28
Program for
The New English Players production at Cripplegate Institute, London
1907 October 28
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-6
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 29
Program for Mrs. Patrick Campbell [
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, 1865-1940]and London Company production at the
Royal Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh, Scotland),
1908 September 19
General Physical Description note: Also includes information for
Electra, by
Arthur Symons.)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-5
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 28
Part of a newspaper clipping entitled "Good Turns at Orpheum are all 'English'" from
Examiner?
1913 January 21
General Physical Description note: Review of play, starring
Constance Crawleyand
Arthur Maude.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-30
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 14
Program for Joseph Rickard's Negro Classic Ballet at the Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles
1951 February 24
Note
The performance contained a piece based on Harlot's House.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 14
Photograph of a scene from Street Lights," a ballet performed by The First Negro Classic Ballet of
Joseph Rickard,
Daily News
1951 September 22
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 14
Review from an unknown magazine,
1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-31
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 14
Review in
Pall Mall Budget,
1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-32
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 15
Review in
Pall Mall Budget,
1895 January 10
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-33
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 18
Review in
Lika Joko with cartoons by Harry Furniss
January 12, 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-39
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 27
Newspaper advertisements for the 1948 film starring Paulette Goddard.
1948
General Physical Description note: 4 versions of the advertisement in various sizes.
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 16
"Oscar Wilde's wit is wrapped in tasteful luxury for films,"
1948
General Physical Description note: (3 leaves). Film review of An ideal husband from an unknown magazine.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 7
"Fashion in the films: costumes by Cecil Beaton for
An Ideal Husband"
1948
General Physical Description note: Article from an unknown magazine,which includes sketches of the costumes.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 26
Virginia Wright. Film review from
Daily News
1948 March 12
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 26
Edwin Schallert. "Ideal husband ornamental," from
Los Angeles Times
1948 March 12
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 30
Theater program for
Ein idealer Gatte, Munich, Germany
1975 September 19
General Physical Description note: In Kleine Komodie Am Max-II-Denkmal, Munich, W.Germany.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 23
Frueh, Alfred Joseph, 1880-1968, Caricature of cast from
The New Yorker
1947
General Physical Description note: Includes caricatures of
Pamela Mary Brown, 1917-1975 ,
Robert Flemyng, 1912-1995,
Dame Margaret Rutherford, 1892-1972, and
Sir John Gielgud, 1904-2000.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 31
Program for
National Youth Theatre production at the Shaw Theatre
about 1971?
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-7
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 32
Grey Friar's Amateur Dramatic Society production at the Court Theatre, London
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-8
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 33
Program for George Alexander revival at St. James's Theatre,
ca 1909?
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-9
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 25
Photograph of John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies in 1939 London production
undated
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine.
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 17
Photographs from the St. James's Theatre production, from unknown publication
1895
General Physical Description note: a. Caption (top): "Lady Bracknell: - 'London society is full of women of the very highest birth, who have, of their own free
choice, remained thirty-five for years.'" b. Caption (bottom): "Is this the handbag? Examine it carefully. The happiness of
more than one life depends on your answer."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-34, 36-35
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 2
Theater program for the St. James' Theatre production,
1895 February 14
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-10
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 18
Review of production at St. James's Theatre,
1895 February 23
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-36
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 5
Theater program for the St. James's Theatre production,
1902 January 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-11
Note
Gift, UCLA Library Walter O. Schneider Collection, 1963 (MS.1963.014).
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 18
Frank Harris, 1856-1931 , "Our dramatic critics: The importance of being earnest,"
1902 January 18
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-37
Box Wildeiana 3.5G (formerly)
Theatre poster [black and white; 28.5 x 44 cm.] by A.E Green.
1912 May 1
General Physical Description note: This item is missing as of 2/25/2010.
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 1
Poster for production by The Idlers Amateur Dramatic Club at Pretoria Hall, Sunbury, printed by A.M. Green,
1912
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-2
Note
Gift of Dawson's Bookshop, 1965 (MS.1965.005).
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 2
Photograph from 1947 production
1947 April
General Physical Description note: Photograph of a scene, from an unknown magazine. Photograph by "Vandamm."
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 1
The Playbill for the Royale Theatre (New York) production.
1947 May 5
General Physical Description note: 2 copies. Copy 2 contains insert for a production of William Congreve's
Love for Love by
Sir John Gielgud, 1904-2000.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 24
Ezra Goodman, "Stage review" from
Los Angeles Daily News
1951 June 27
General Physical Description note: Reviews performance at the Deauville Club, Santa Monica.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 1
Hollis Alpert, "SR goes to the movies," review of 1952 film
1952
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine. Review of Anthony Asquith's film.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 4
Adams Memorial Theatre (Williams College, Williamstown) playbill for Caps and Bells, Inc. production.
1957 December 12-14
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 6
Adams Memorial Theatre (Williams College, Williamstown) program for the Caps and Bells, Inc. production.
1957 December 12-14
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 7
Theater program for a German production of "Bunbury"
1962 November
General Physical Description note: With: Donald M. Brander, "Oscar Wilde: Meister des Dialogs." In
Kleine Komodie Kleines Haus am Max II. Denkmal, vol.2 no.2.
Materials for Nobody's Earnest, performed at the Williamstown Theater, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1973
Note
Gift of H. Richard Archer, 1973 (MS.1973.008).
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 13
Postcard of Stetson Hall, Williams College written by
Horace Richard Archer to
William Conway.
1973
Note
Accompanied gift of materials regarding play production.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 13
Theater program for
Nobody's Earnest,
1973
General Physical Description note: Includes a 1 leaf insert with biographical information on Oscar Wilde.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 137
Milton R. Bass, Review of
Nobody's Earnest in the
Berkshire Eagle
1973 August 1
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 13
Marjorie Feiner, "
Nobody's Earnest thrills Williamstown audience,"
Albany Times-Union
1973 August 3
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 13
Edwin Wilson, "A Wilde Time in Williamstown,"
Wall Street Journal
1973 August 9
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 13
John Simon, "Wilde and Woolly,"
New York Magazine
1973 August 27
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 3
Performing Arts program for
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles production,
1977 January
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 10
Dan Sullivan, "The importance of writing - and living - in 'earnest,'" from the
Los Angeles Times
1977 January 23
General Physical Description note: Pre-production article concerning production at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 8
Melvin Maddocks, "A Wild Wilde Revival," from the
Christian Science Monitor
1963 February 27
General Physical Description note: Review of the Repertory Theater Company's production.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 6
Photograph of a scene from theater production designed by Cecil Beaton
undated
General Physical Description note: Pictured:
Cornelia Otis Skinner,
Cecil Beaton, and
Penelope Dudley-Ward. From an unknown magazine.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 3
Photograph of
Athene Seyler by Cecil Beaton
undated
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 9
"Wilde play gets nowhere pleasantly," from unknown newspaper
undated
General Physical Description note: Dateline given as San Francisco; production that starred Cornelia Otis Skinner and Henry Daniell.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-41
Box Wildeiana 30, Folder 25
St. James's Theatre announcement,
undated
General Physical Description note: Also includes announcement for "The decree nisi", by
Joshua Bates.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-13
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 9
Program for Forum Theatre (Los Angeles), featuring the Ernst Lubitsch film,
1925
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-12
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 8
Five reviews from various newspapers
1892
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-38
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 7
Review in
Pall Mall Budget,
1892 February 25
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-39
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 14
Review in
Pall Mall Budget,
1892 February 25
General Physical Description note: Copy 2. Includes a caricature of
Oscar Wilde and an illustration featuring
Marion Terry as Mrs. Erlynne.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-121
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 10
Review in
Moonshine, with caricature of Wilde,
1892 March 15
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-98
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 7
Theater program,
Palmer's Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
1893 February 13-18
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-14
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 6
Three reviews for St. James's Theatre production, starring Marion Terry,
1904
General Physical Description note: Accompanied by an illustration with caption: Mrs. Erlynne comes to the dance, despite Lady Windermere's protest.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-40
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 4
Herb Sterne, Review of the Theater Guild's revival in
Script
1946 October 12
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 5
Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893-1970, Review of 1946 production from
The Nation
1946 November 2
General Physical Description note: Starring
Penelope Dudley-Ward, 1919-1982.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 12
Franklin Daugherty, "'Lady Windermere's Fan' to be filmed as 'The Fan,'"
Christian Science Monitor
1948 August 27
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 11
E. J. Strong, "'Lady Windermere's Fan' made modern for film,"
Los Angeles Times
1948 August 28
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 12
Gene Coughlin, "The wilful Jersey Lily,"
The American Weekly
1949 September 11
General Physical Description note: Short biographical piece on
Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929, for whom Oscar Wilde wrote
Lady Windermere's Fan.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 29
Erskine Johnson, "Twins," from
Los Angeles Evening Times
1944 March 9
General Physical Description note: Article about the painters of the portraits to be used in the movie.
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 30
Photograph of
Donna Reed in the 1945 film from unknown magazine
1945
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 31
Magazine clipping about Angela Lansbury and her role in the 1945 film
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 11
"Oscar Wilde's famous parable makes a morbid, unusual film," synopsis from unknown musical
1945 March 19
General Physical Description note: 3 leaves.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 10
Teatr Pantomimy Kul (Lublin, Poland) theater program for Portret Doriana Graya
1982
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 12
Program for Progressive Stage Society production at the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre,
1905
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-16
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 22
Photograph of
Lina Munte as Salome, by
Paul Boyer
ca 1896
General Physical Description note: 1 Photographic print: black and white; image 14 x 10 cm, mounted on board 16.5 x 11 cm. Inscribed in ink on verso: "Lina Munte
as Salome--First interpreter of the role?"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-43
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 10
"Mr. Wilde's forbidden play,"
Westminster Budget
1893 March 10
General Physical Description note: Prohibition by Lord Chamberlain to license the performance of Salome on the English stage.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-46
Box Wildeiana 2, item 77
Article about Richard Strauss opera based on
Salome
1905
General Physical Description note: In an unknown magazine. With a photograph of
Friedrich Kayssler, 1874-1945 as Iokanaan.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-54
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 12
Review of the New Stage Club production,
San Francisco Argonaut,
1905 May 6
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-134
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 19
Max Meyerfeld, "Literary Theatre Club: Salome and The Florentine tragedy,"
1906 June 12
General Physical Description note: From an unknown newspaper. Review of the Literary Theatre Club productions.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-53
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 11
Astor Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.) program.
1906 November 15
General Physical Description note: Includes information on "The Prophet", by
Edward Elsner.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-15
Box Wildeiana 1, Folder 32
Libretto by Richard Strauss with English translations, for production by Oscar Hammerstein
1906
General Physical Description note: Cover title: Grand opera under the direction of Mr.
Oscar Hammerstein.Libretto. The original Italian, French, or German libretto with a correct English translation. Cover imprint: Published by
Charles E. Burden, New York. From the collection of Richard Butler Glaenzer.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-45
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 9
Manhattan Opera House program, including Strauss opera
1908-1909
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-17
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 1
Three Russian articles about a 1920 production of Salome
1920
General Physical Description note: 1. Russian article on a production of Salome; 2. Portrait of O. Gsovskaja as Salome; 3. Russian advertisement for a production
of Salome.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-44
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 8
Poster for production at KataKombe at Kellertheater (Frankfurt, Germany),
1973 Mar 10-1973 June 30
General Physical Description note: Poster, 33 x 80 cm.
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 9
Robert Breuer, "Lieblos durch Liebe,"
Aufbau
1975 March 7
General Physical Description note: Review of the NY State Theater production of Salome.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 13
Program for
Richard Christopher Howard translation at University of Texas,
1978 July 8 and 15
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 1
Poster for University of Texas production in a new translation by
Richard Christopher Howard,
1978
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 14
Cornerstone Theatre Company program for The Actors' Gang in Richard Howard translation
1998 January 22-March 7
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 10
Union Square Theatre Programme (New York).
1883 August 20
General Physical Description note: Presenting Marie Prescott as Vera.
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 11
Union Square Theatre Programme (New York)
1883 August 25
General Physical Description note: Presenting Marie Prescott as Vera.
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 20
Theater Program from the Theatre Royal, Haymarket production of
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
n.d
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-18
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 20
"The New Haymarket Piece: Sketches by a 'P.I.P.' artist," drawings of
Herbert Beerbohm Tree production,
n.d.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-19
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 4
"'All London' at the Haymarket,"
Westminster Budget
1893 April 28
General Physical Description note: Review of the costume designs; with 3 illustrations of the actors.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-47
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 2
Four reviews and one advertisement from different London newspapers
1893 April 28
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-51
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 13
Review from unknown periodical, accompanied by an illustration by Stewart Browne,
1893 April 29
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-50
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 3
Edward Russell, "The theatre to-day and its teaching,"
Westminster Budget
1893
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-49
Note
Pasted on a page with the below article.
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 3
Review of Haymarket Theatre production.
1893 April 19
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine. Pasted on a page with the above article.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-48
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 1
Lewis Waller, 1860-1915 ,
Parts I have played: a photographic and descriptive biography: 30 photographs and biographical sketch.
ca 1909
General Physical Description note: Lewis Waller is the actor who played Lord Illingworth in
A Woman of No Importance and Sir Robert Chiltern in
An Ideal Husband. Clark copy is autographed by the author.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-52
Theatrical Productions about Wilde 1.4.2
1933-1997, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes notes, reviews, articles, and memorabilia relating to the theatrical production of works about Oscar
Wilde. The series is arranged by the title of the work and, within title groupings, by the date of the production.
The Importance of Being Oscar
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 17
Milton Shulman, "It's brilliant, this oral biography of Oscar Wilde,"
Evening Standard
undated
Note
Review of Michael Mac Liammoir's performance at the Apollo.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 15
Playbill for the Derby Playhouse production.
1974
General Physical Description note: Two person production "devised and played by Peter Clark and Mark Woolgar."
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 15
T.L.S. from Mark Woolgar, Derby Playhouse, Derby, England to Edmond G. Harris, Dept. of Fine Arts Productions, UCLA.
1974 April 7
General Physical Description note: Includes includes photocopied reviews.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 18
Photograph by Vandamm of a scene from
Oscar Wilde
1939 March
General Physical Description note: Images shows actor John Carol.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 20
Angus McBean, photograph of Robert Morley
1959
General Physical Description note: Caption: "Robert Morley, whom American audiences recall in the title role of 'Oscar Wilde,' plays the Prince Regent opposite
Wendy Hiller in 'The First Gentleman,' by Norman Ginsburg in which both may be seen in New York."
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 15
Cast Theatre program & playbill for the production by Leslie and Sewell Stokes, Los Angeles
1977 May
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 7
Poster advertising Los Angeles Cast Theatre production,
1977 May
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 2
Rachel Fischer , "The Backstage Life of 'Oscar Wilde's Wife,'"
Westside Weekly
1997 May 16
Box Wildeiana 2, item 43
Los Angeles Times advertisemnt for the Odyssey Theatre (Los Angeles) production
1997 May 20
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 4
Philip Brandes, "Earnest Yet Troubled, 'Oscar Wilde's Wife,'"
Los Angeles Times
1997 May 30
Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride by Gilbert & Sullivan
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 9
Program for the Merstham and District Amateur Operatic Society (London) production with an introduction by A.J.A. Symons
1933 February 9-11
Note
Purchase, 1955 (MS.1955.001).
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 5
Kevin Jackson, "Running Wilde on the Road,"
The Independent
1989 September 15
General Physical Description note: Review of the
Field Day Theatre Company production.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 23
Stephen Fry, "Life and Letters: Playing Oscar,"
The New Yorker
1997 June 16
General Physical Description note: p. 82-88.
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 19
Postcard advertisement for the movie
1998
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 21
Kevin Thomas, "Full-blooded 'Wilde' offers definitive portrait of Oscar,"
Los Angeles Times
1998 May 1
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 22
Kevin Thomas, "Born to be Wilde,"
Los Angeles Times
1998 May 7
A Wilde Evening with Shaw
Box Wildeiana 2, Folder 16
Melvin Maddocks , review in
The Christian Science Monitor
1963 March 7
Note
Two person act starring
Richard Gray and
Mayo Loiseau .
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 24
Flyers and other promotional material for WildeWeek events in Los Angeles, organized by the Purple Circuit and the ONE National
Gay and Lesbian Archives,
1996-1997
Reviews and Articles 1.5
1881-1997, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains newspaper and journal articles relating to Wilde and his work and is divided further into three additional
subseries: 1.5.1. describes articles and reviews for which the author is identified; 1.5.2. described articles and reviews
where the author is unknown or anonymous; 1.5.3. describes material related to Wilde's trials.
Signed Reviews and Articles 1.5.1
1881-1997, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes reviews and articles concerning Wilde and his work, where the author of the piece is identified. The
series is arranged by the name of the author and then by the title of the article.
Archer, William, 1856-1924.
Box Wildeiana 4, Folder 19
"About the Theatre. The English drama in Germany--A talk with Dr. Meyerfield--Oscar Wilde , Bernard Shaw, Gordon Craig --German
Managers and Authors--The Kaiser and the Theatre."
1906
General Physical Description note: From an unknown newspaper.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 36-55
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 3
"A Drama and its Story," from unknown newspaper,
1904
General Physical Description note: Review for the German translation of
The Duchess of Padua, translated by Max Meyerfield.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-28
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 46
William Archer, Review of
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories, from unknown publication
1891
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-22
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 15
William Archer, 1856-1924, "Mr. Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray,"
Pall Mall Budget,
1890 July 3
General Physical Description note: Review of
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-23
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 30
Richard Armour, "Books: Wilde, Leader and Follower,"
Script,
1948 August
General Physical Description note: Review of Edward Roditi's
Oscar Wilde.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 20
Frederick H. Berger, "Wilde Child,"
Propaganda: Gothic Chronicle, no. 23, pages 22-27
1996 Fall
Bracewell, Michael, 1958-
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 16
Michael Bracewell, "Saint Oscar is Now among Us,"
Financial Times,
1997 October 11-12
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 15
Caesareon , "Für Oskar Wilde ... !",
Die Freundschaft,
1921 August 20-26
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-84
Carpeaux, Otto Maria, 1900-
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 2
"Um Conselho de Wilde,"
O Estado de São Paulo: Suplemento Literário.
1962 September 8
Cheakalos, Christina and
Nina Biddle
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 48
Christina Cheakalos and
Nina Biddle, "Walk on the Wilde Side,"
People,
1998 June 15
General Physical Description note: Article about Merlin Holland.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 25
William E. Conway, "Additions to the Oscar Wilde Collection,"
UCLA Librarian,
1966 August
Box Wildeiana 4, item 39
News of the Month.
1950 July
General Physical Description note: Contains mention of a Wilde manuscript (Act I and II of
The Importance of Being Earnest ) in the Arents Tobacco Collection.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 32
The Green Carnation.
1890
General Physical Description note: From an unknown magazine; date indeterminate. Article about a hybrid green carnation made popular by Oscar Wilde.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-31
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 42
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 36
Speranza, that Remarkable Woman.
1949 April 15,
General Physical Description note:
Vogue. 2 leaves.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 44
Adam Gopnik, "A Critic at Large: The Invention of Oscar Wilde,"
The New Yorker
1998 May 18
Howard, Richard Christopher.
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 13
Richard Christopher Howard, "Wilde Thing,"
Los Angeles Times Book Review,
1998 May 31
General Physical Description note: Book review of
Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, edited by Philip E. Smith II and Michael S. Helfand;
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, edited by
Peter Raby ;
The Wilde Album, by
Merlin Holland ;
Wilde the Irishman, edited by Jerusha McCormack;
The Uncollected Oscar Wilde, edited by John Wyse Jackson; and
André and Oscar by Jonathan Fryer.
Humphreys, Travers, Sir, 1867-1956.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 51
"The Importance of Being Oscar Wilde: Disaster at the Height of his Fame,"
News of the World,
1952 February 24
Hyde, Harford Montgomery, 1907-1989.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 37
Richard Le Gallienne: Poet of the "Nineties."
1947 October 16
General Physical Description note:
The Listener.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 40
The Truth about Oscar Wilde.
1950 November 30
General Physical Description note:
News of the World.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 50
"Author of the Month: H. Montgomery Hyde,"
Books to Come: An Advance List for Bookbuyers,
1951 July
General Physical Description note: no. 81. H. Montgomery Hyde is pictured on the cover and described as one of the authors of the month, including a personal
background and short list of books published, including 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde'.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 43
Randy Katz, "Oscar Wilde Grandson Says Writer Would Side with Flynt,"
Cincinnati Post,
1998 March 23
General Physical Description note: Photocopy with handwritten notes by
Merlin Holland.
Kirsch, Robert R., 1922-1980.
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 1
"Oscar Wilde: Footnotes to a Fabulous Fop.,"
Los Angeles Times,
1962 October 21
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 5
Lillie, C. Jay, "Grosvenor Grotesques," with caricature of Wilde,
Society,
1881 June 1
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-95
Marbury, Elisabeth, 1856-1933.
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 1
Elisabeth Marbury, "My Crystal Ball,"
Saturday Evening Post,
1923 September 15
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-32
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 26
Clotilde Marghieri, "Le lettere di Oscar Wilde,"
La Nazione (Florence, Italy),
1962 September 21
General Physical Description note: Review of
The Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by
Rupert Hart-Davis.
McLaren, Moray, 1901-1971.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 21
Wilde: the Self-portrait Preserved.
1962 June 23
General Physical Description note:
The Scotsman. Review of
The Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by
Sir Rupert Hart-Davis.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 23
Vivian Mercier, 1919-, "The Fate of Oscar Wilde,"
Commonweal,
1955 February 18
General Physical Description note: Review of
Vyvyan Beresford Holland's
Son of Oscar Wilde and
The Works of Oscar Wilde, edited by G.F. Maine.
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 17
Mitchell Owens, "On Irving Place with Merlin Holland: The Importance of Being Honest: Oscar Wilde's Grandson is Accepting
his Family's Legacy,"
New York Times,
1998 May 28
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 41
Peter Raby, "The Making of
The Importance of Being Earnest : an Unpublished Letter from Oscar Wilde,"
Times Literary Supplement
1991 December 20
General Physical Description note: Photocopy.
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 12
1905 October 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-132
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 53
"Easy Ethics for Editors" offprint,
Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors,
1956 Summer
General Physical Description note: Mentions Oscar Wilde at end of article.
Thorogood, Horace, d. 1962.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 35
Lord Queensberry Reveals "Unknown" Wilde Letters.
1948 November 8
General Physical Description note:
The Evening Standard.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 34
Some Postscripts to Oscar Wilde.
1940 August 17
General Physical Description note: 2 leaves.
The Saturday Review of Literature. Article about the furor over the Epstein memorial and events following Oscar Wilde's death.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-240
Unsigned Reviews and Unattributed News Articles 1.5.2
1881-1989, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries includes unsigned reviews and anonymous articles concerning Wilde and his work. The series is arranged by the
date of the article.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 29
"Oscar Wilde had the chance to go abroad,"
undated
General Physical Description note: Fragment of an article from an unknown newspaper.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 28
"Concerning Oscar Wilde Fifteen Years Later: Revival of Interest in his Works, and Kindly Oblivion that has Enshrouded the
Man,"
The New York Times,
undated
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 12
"Tragedy of genius: Oscar Wilde's Dying Wish about his Debts, Disposing of Rumours," from unknown publication,
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-135
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 4
"The New Babylon: Oscar and the Lord Chamberlain,"
Yule tide,
undated
General Physical Description note: p.13.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-66
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 47
Review of
Poems,
Harpers New Monthly Magazine,
1881
General Physical Description note:
Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-20
Box Wildeiana 7B, item 56
Ten clippings about Oscar Wilde, Vera; or The nihilist, and his lecture, "Personal impressions of America"
1881-1894
General Physical Description note: From various newspapers and magazines
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-137
Box Wildeiana 14, Folder 4
"Oscar Wilde's Visit to America,"
1882 January 24
General Physical Description note: 8 page article, source unknown.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-91
Box Wildeiana 10.21 (formerly)
Oscar Wilde vient ici pour un soir seulement, conférence sur l'art decoratif, au théâtre du Grand Opera, vendredi soir 16
Juin (1883).
1883 June 16
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of an announcement in a French newspaper for Oscar Wilde's lecture, "Art decoration." There is a photocopy of this
item located in Wildeiana 10, but the original is thought to be missing as of 2/25/2010.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-33
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 7
Public Letter to Oscar Wilde from "The candid friend," from unknown magazine,
1893 June 1
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-136
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 14
"Mrs. Oscar Wilde at Home,"
To-Day,
1894 November 24
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-100
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 19
"Le Caron: He says he is out of pocket by his patriotism," with drawing of Oscar Wilde, from unknown newspaper,
1889 February
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-96
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 37
Two reviews for
De Profundis,
1905 March
General Physical Description note: In a Glasgow publication and
Circle.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-29
Box Wildeiana 12, Folder 11
"Lord Alfred Douglas loses his case," from unknown newspaper,
1913 April 23
General Physical Description note: Accompanied by a photograph of Wilde and Douglas.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-78
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 12
Book review for
Oscar Wilde, his Life and Confessions, by Frank Harris,
Modern Society,
1914 February 21
General Physical Description note: Picture of Wilde on magazine cover.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-16
Box Wildeiana 13, Folder 18
"Oscar Wilde in 1880,"
Puck,
1914 November 28
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-97
Box Wildeiana 4, item 33
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills.
1936 November
General Physical Description note: Page 1 of an entry in British authors of the nineteenth century.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 36
Transcript of a book review for
Oscar Wilde, Selected Works, edited by Richard Aldington,
Times Literary Supplement,
1946 November 16
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 33
"Book about Wilde," from unknown newspaper
ca 1949
General Physical Description note: About a luncheon given by the Marquess of Queensbury to mark the publication of his book
Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 34
Two book reviews for George Woodcock's
The Paradox of Oscar Wilde,
1949 June 30-1950 February 12
General Physical Description note: From unknown newspapers.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 38
Oscar Wildes Sturz in den Abgrund.
1949 July 23
General Physical Description note:
Die Presse [Wien].
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 32
"Wilde Play Bought at London Auction,"
Christian Science Monitor,
1949 July 28
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 14
"Oscar Wilde after Fifty Years,"
Times Literary Supplement,
1950 November 24
General Physical Description note: Book review for various books.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 27
"Oscar Wilde's Last Manuscript 'Revealed' to Public after 50 Years,"
Arizona Daily Star
1960 January 4
News Coverage of Wilde's Trials 1.5.3.
Mixed materials 17
Contemporary newspaper clippings covering Wilde's 3 trials and other related legal actions
1895-1914
Note
Scrapbook containing well-organized news clippings on Wilde's trials as well as Douglas v Ransome and Ross v Crosland and
Douglas. The compiler is unknown. Contents are kept in chronological order and newspapers collected are as follows:
I. First trial, three days:
Daily Telegraph; Aftermath:
The Star II. Second trial:
The Telegraph,
The Star III. Third trial:
The Star,
The Telegraph,
The Evening News and seven other papers; Retrospective view:
The Star IV. Libel action of Lord Alfred Douglas against Arthur Ransome (April 1913):
The Star and seven other papers
Scrapbook missing front cover. First few leaves are very loose -- handle with care!
Purchase, 1973 (MS.1973.007).
Physical Condition
This item is very delicate. Please handle with care.
Augustin manuscript of De Profundis discovery by Robert D. Pepper
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 12
Mary Madison, "Peninsulan's Old Manuscript is a Literary 'Find,'"
Peninsula Times Tribune (Palo Alto, California)
1982 September 4
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 16
Aleta Watson, "Discovery about Wilde Leads to Another: Typescript Turns up after Publicity about S.J. Visit,"
San Jose News,
1982 September 9
General Physical Description note: 2 copies.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 17
Cheryl Greggans, "English professor verifies Oscar Wilde manuscript,"
Daily Spartan
1982 September 8
Mixed materials 6, Folder 18
Jack Schreibman, "Edited Transcript of De Profundis Surfaces," Associated Press release,
1982 September 2
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 19
Harry Farrell, "Document May be 'Dirty' Copy of Wilde Letter,"
San Jose Mercury,
1982 September 7
General Physical Description note: Photocopy of original article.
Mixed materials 6, Folder 21
"Oscar Wilde edition" of KPFK 90.7 Program Folio,
October 14-27, 1963
Sheet Music and Associated Items 1.6
1882-1914, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains sheet music inspired by Wilde's work and his life. The items are arranged alphabetically by title.
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 7
"Two lyrical songs: 'At Rest,' words by Oscar Wilde and 'Oranges,' words by Leigh Hunt," H. V. Jervis-Read, composer. London:
Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, Ltd.,
1910
General Physical Description note: Proof copy inscribed to
Robert Baldwin Ross from the composer.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-8
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 6
"Ballad of the Greek Seas : Opus 23," H. V. Jervis-Read, composer, London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, Ltd.
1911
General Physical Description note: 2 copies, copy 2 has variant cover ("Professional Copy"). Songs for voice and piano with poems by Oscar Wilde.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-7
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"Dada's Baby Boy," (part of "The Oscar Songster" songsheet)
ca 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-2
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 15
"Dream of the Lily Waltz," Composer: Carl Uschman.
undated
General Physical Description note: 2 copies. Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-19
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 17
"The Flippity Flop Young Man" (reproduction of cover)
undated
General Physical Description note: "2d ed., with additional verses"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-61
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 11
"The Flippity Flop Young Man," Composer: E. Jonghmans,
1882
General Physical Description note: London: Francis Bros. and Day
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-14
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 20
"Forget-Me-Not Waltzes," Amy Henry
undated
General Physical Description note: New York: W.A. Evans and Bro.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-23
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 17
"Forget-Me-Not Waltzes" (reproduction of cover)
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-25
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 4
"Four Impressions: Opus 28," H. V. Jervis-Read, composer. London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, Ltd.
1911
General Physical Description note: Sheet music . Songs for voice and piano with poems by Oscar Wilde.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-4
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 3
"From Springtime to Winter : Opus 25," H. V. Jervis-Read, composer, London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, Ltd.
1913
General Physical Description note: Sheet music. 2 copies. Songs for voice and piano with poems by Oscar Wilde.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-5
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"I Do Not Sigh for Wealth," (part of "The Oscar Songster" songsheet)
ca 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-2
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 8
"In the Forest," Edwin Tilden, Composer. Boston: Miles and Thompson,
1891
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-9
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 13
"Jolly Utter Galop," Composer: O. Heyer
undated
General Physical Description note: Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-16
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 17
"Jolly Utter Galop" (reproduction of cover)
undated
General Physical Description note: Reproduction of songsheet cover.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-23
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"Leaving thy Father and Mother," (part of "The Oscar Songster" songsheet)
ca 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-2
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"Love Me Little, Love Me Long," (part of "The Oscar Songster" songsheet)
ca 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-2
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 2
"Loved for Evermore," Edwin Christie, composer. Chicago: National Music Co.,
ca 1883
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-1
Note
Gift of
Espey, John J. (John Jenkins), 1913-2000, 1974 (MS.1974.005).
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 9
"Oh! Beautiful Star," Lawrence Kellie, composer. London: Robert Cocks and Co.,
1892
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-10
Note
2 copies.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"Oh! Oscar Wilde, We Never Thought You was Built That Way," (part of "The Oscar Songster" songsheet)
ca 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-3
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 18
"Oscar Wilde Galop," Composer: Snow
undated
General Physical Description note: Copies 1 and 2 have the same cover (this item); Folder 19 contains the same item with a variant cover. . Chicago: National
Music Co.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-21
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 19
"Oscar Wilde Galop," Composer: Snow
undated
General Physical Description note: Chicago: National Music Co. The items in folder 18 are the same musical piece, but have a different cover.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-22
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 17
"Oscar, Dear!" (reproduction of cover)
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-22
Box Wildeiana 11, Folder 13
"Oscar, Dear!" (original), Composer: Monroe H. Rosenfeld. Cincinnati: F.W. Helmick.
1882
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-13
Note
White album mount cut for this item is housed in the bottom of Box 23.
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 17
"Oscar's Schottische," Composer: Charles Boote, Jr
undated
General Physical Description note: Boston: Oliver Ditson
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-17
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"The Oscar Songster: Oscar's Working on a Fresh Job Now,"
ca 1895
General Physical Description note: 2 leaf songsheet.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-2 and Wilde 38-3
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 55
"Parody on Daisy Bell," (part of "The Oscar Songster" songsheet)
ca 1895
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-2
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 7, Mixed materials 10, Folder 7
"Quite Too Utterly Utter: an Aesthetical Roundelay." Composer: Robert Coote [not after 1926]. Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.
undated
General Physical Description note: Composer: Robert Coote [not after 1926]. Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-12
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 5
"Requiescat : Opus 21," H. V. Jervis-Read, composer, London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, Ltd.,
1911
General Physical Description note: Sheet music. 2 copies. Songs for voice and piano with poems by Oscar Wilde.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-6
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 10
H Clough-Leighter, composer, Seven songs. [Includes "Requiescat" by Oscar Wilde]. Boston: The Boston Music Co.
1914
General Physical Description note: Purchase, 1977 (MS.1977.016).
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-11
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 12
"Sun Flower Polka," Composer: Charles Coote, Jr.,
undated
General Physical Description note: Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-15
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 16
"Too All But Waltz," Composer: Maurizio G Giannetti.
undated
General Physical Description note: Boston: Oliver Ditson.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-20
Box Wildeiana 7, Folder 14
"Too Utterly Utter March," Composer: C. Faust.
undated
General Physical Description note: Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 38-18
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 17
"Utterly Utter: An Aesthetic Duet" (reproduction of cover)
undated
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-24
Memorabilia and Realia 1.7
1912-1978, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains documents and objects that are souvenirs of places or events associated with Oscar Wilde. The items
are organized by type.
Box Wildeiana 4, item 31
Birth announcement.
1886 November 13
General Physical Description note: Birth announcement of Oscar Wilde's son, Vivian (later changed to Vyvyan) in the births, marriages, and deaths section of
Vanity Fair.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 52
Business card from the Hotel D'Alsace,
1956
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 4
"Plan of Reading Abbey (Adapted from plan by Dr. J.B. Hurry at the Reading Public Library),
undated
General Physical Description note: 38 x 49.5 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-6
Box Wildeiana 4, item 56
Map
1978
General Physical Description note: Souvenir maps of the Père Lachaise cemetery. 2 maps. Gift of J. Balakrishnan, November 1994.
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 6
"Original photo of Oscar Wilde's tomb with press notice at back," (photograph of memorial by Jacob Epstein),
undated
General Physical Description note: Photographic print: black and white; image 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Pasted on verso: Press release regarding opposition by the cemetery
to the memorial.
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 9
"The Oscar Wilde memorial by Jacob Epstein, in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris," supplement to
The New Age,
1912 June 6
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 39-82
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 45
Photographs by Majl Ewing of Wilde's tomb,
1951
General Physical Description note: 2 Photographic prints: col.; images each 11.5 x 9 cm, mounted in paper folders. Gift of Majl Ewing, 1952 (MS.1952.013).
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 5
Paper place mat from the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas,
1968
General Physical Description note: 1 place mat; 25 x 38 cm. The Menger Hotel was one time host to Oscar Wilde.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 15
Color photographs of Wilde's Tite Street house and Wilde's tomb in Pere Lachaise,
1978, 1982
General Physical Description note: Photographs & 35mm color slides of Oscar Wilde's memorial in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (5 photos taken August 1977);
color photographs of his home on Tite Street in London (7 photos taken November 1982). Gift of J. Balakrishnan, November 1994.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 21
Reproduction of Wilde's inscription in "Cheiro's" visitors' book,
1892 October
General Physical Description note: William John Warner, "Cheiro", was an Irish astrologer.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 22
Photocopies of Wilde's consular death record and probate file, from "M. Roberts,"
1996 October 28
General Physical Description note: With copy of letter from Steve Tabor (Clark Library) to Roberts.
Oscar Wilde in America 1.8
1882-1883, 1978-1990, undated
Scope and Contents note
In 1882, Oscar Wilde made a tour of America. Upon his return to England, he toured that country, giving his impresions of
America. This subseries contains documents associated with these lectures. The reader is advised to consult the rest of the
collection for more materials concerning these tours, since the items in this particular subseries were extracted by the Clark
staff for the convenience of beginning scholars. The items are arranged chronologically.
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 31
"The English Renaissance," Chickering Hall, New York City, invitation with wax seal,
1882
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-8
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 1
"A Talk with Wilde: The Apostle of the Aesthetes Enunciates his Views,'
The Philadelphia Press,
1882 January 17
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-16
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 4
"Wilde and Whitman: The Aesthetic Singer Visits the Good Gray Poet,"
Philadelphia Press,
1882 January 19
General Physical Description note: On the same page: part of an article entitled, "Not a Wilde idea, after all."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-15
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 29
"Oscar Wilde's Visit to America" (photostat)
1882 February 4
General Physical Description note: Later printing of Wildeiana 7.68 (January 24, 1882)
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-12
Box Wildeiana 10, item 3
Invitation.
California .
1882 March 29
General Physical Description note: Outside: "Wednesday evening, March 29,1882. Oscar Wilde. Subject: 'Art decoration.' being the practical application of the
aesthetic theory to every day home life." Inside: "Special announcement. Mr. Locke has the honor to announce that Oscar Wilde
will deliver, for the accomodation of the ladies of San Francisco, an address on Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Subject:
'The house beautiful and art decoration.'"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-10
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 5
"Art and Aesthetics: Arrival of Oscar Wilde -- A Tribune Reporter Escorts him to the Opera House,"
The Tribune (Denver, Co.),
1882 April 13
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-18
Box Wildeiana 10, item 7
Letter to "Nellie".
Freemont, Nebraska.
1882 April 25
General Physical Description note: A letter written from Oscar Wilde to "Nellie" from Freemont, Nebraska, telling about Wilde's visit to Leadville, Colorado
to see miners and give them a lecture about metalworking. He was able to go down into a silver mine, then took a train to
Kansas. He arrived just after the outlaw Jesse James was killed and wrote about people fighting over souvenirs. Wilde also
gave a lecture at a college in Lincoln, Nebraska and was given a tour of the prison there. He described the prisoners as "all
mean looking, which consoled me, for I should hate to see a criminal with a noble face."
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 30
Program for "Art Decoration," Association Hall, Philadelphia,
1882 May 10
General Physical Description note: Printed on translucent paper with an etching of Oscar Wilde by James E. Kelly printed underneath. Printed by Art Interchange
Press.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-9
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 2
"Oscar Wilde's Lecture,"
The Evening Light (San Antonio, Texas),
1882 June 22
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-17
Box Wildeiana 18, Folder 10
Twelve announcements from various London newspapers about Wilde's lecture, "Personal Impressions of America" at Princes' Hall
in Picadilly.
1883 June 30-1883 July 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-21
Accession Number Map Drawer, item MS.2009.024
"Oscar Wilde thoroughly exhausted," Daily Evening Times (Saint John, New Brunswick),
1882 November 30
General Physical Description note: Original newspaper from 1882 describing Wilde in New York. (Gift of Gabrielle Lopez, 2009).
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 1
Twelve announcements from various London newspapers about Wilde's lecture, "Personal Impressions of America" at Princes' Hall
in Picadilly.
1883 June 30-1883 July 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-24
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 4
Ten announcements from various London newspapers about "Personal Impressions of America,"
1883 June 30-1883 July 9
General Physical Description note: Regarding Oscar Wilde's lecture, "Personal Impressions of America"
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-25
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 3
Six announcements from various London newspapers about "Personal Impressions of America, "
1883 July 2-1883 July 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-19
Box Wildeiana 21, Folder 2
Six articles from various London papers criticizing Oscar Wilde's appearance and his lecture, "Personal impressions of America,"
1883 July 2-1883 July 7
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-20
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 26
Program for "Personal Impressions of America," Princes' Hall, Picadilly,
1883 July 10
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-11
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 9
"Mr. Oscar Wilde on America,"
The Freeman's Journal (Dublin),
1883 July 11
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-31
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 2
"Mr. Oscar Wilde on America,"
The Echo,
1883 July 11
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-22
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 2
1883 July 12
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-23
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 6
Five reviews and satires from English newspapers about "Personal Impressions of America"
1883 July 18-1883 July 21
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-26
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 8
Review of "Personal Impressions of America,"
Sheffield Telegraph,
1883 July 12
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-30
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 5
Three reviews from English newspapers about "Personal Impressions of America"
1883 July 12
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-27
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 7
Four reviews from various English newspapers of "Personal Impressions of America"
1883 July 12
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-28
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 8
"Mr. Oscar Wilde on America,"
The Era,
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-29
Box Wildeiana 22, Folder 10
1883 July 19
General Physical Description note: Critical review of "Personal Impressions of America."
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-32
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 28
Small broadside for "Personal Impressions of America," Free Trade Hall, Manchester,
1883 October 8
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 27
Program for lecture on "The House Beautiful," The Royal Institution, Hull,
1883 October 16
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 40-13
Box Wildeiana 10, Folder 10
O'Connell, Dan, "Bohemian Experiences of Oscar Wilde and Sir Samuel Baker,"
San Francisco Chronicle, (photocopy)
1897 October 2
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 32
T. Lentton Meyers , "Oscar Wilde and Williamsburg." In Society for the Preservation of Nineteenth Century Williamburg, Significant monograph
series, no.1,
1978 April 1
General Physical Description note: April Fool's Day satiric article. With this: T.L.S., dated September 14, 1982, from the author to the Clark Library.
Box Wildeiana 10, item 11
Journal article.
n.p. .
1990 Fall
General Physical Description note:
William Warren Rogers , "In Defense of Oscar Wilde: Mary E. Bullock on his Savannah appearances in 1882." In
The Georgia Historical Quarterly, v.74 no.3. (Clark copy is inscribed to John Bidwell from the author).
Collection Management, Exhibits, and Relations with Other Collections 2
1887-1996, undated
Scope and Contents note
This series contains materials related to the development of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library's collection of papers
relating to Oscar Wilde. Included are inventories of other collections, dealer lists, correspondence with collectors, and
notices of special promotional events at the Clark Library and elsewhere.
Correspondence Files 2.1
1922-1996, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains correspondence relative to the development of the Clark Library Collection. [In most cases, the recipient
is
William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1877-1934 .] It is arranged in order of the author, then by date.
Box MS Wilde 4, Folder 15
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1931 April 18
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: Marion Berland Books, 5 West 52 Street, New York.... With this: 5 p. description of Wilde works
for sale.
Clark shelfmark: B5141L C596 1931 Apr. 18
General note
References: Dulau 59, XLIX
Brentano's, firm, publishers, New York.
Box MS Wilde 55, Folder 30
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 May 25
General Physical Description note: TL 1 leaf. Stationery headed: Brentano's, Fifth Avenue and 27th Street, New York City. With: Rosenbach, TLS to W.A. Clark,
May 19, 1922.
Clark shelfmark: R8131L C596 1922 May 19
General note
References: Finzi 151
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Box MS Wilde 10, Folder 68
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1931 March 25
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
Clark shelfmark: C5745L C596 1931 Mar. 25
General note
References: Finzi 249
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
Box MS Wilde 10, Folder 70
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945.
1932 August 28
General Physical Description note: TL 2 leaves. Typed carbon copy, unsigned.
Clark shelfmark: C596L D733 1932 Aug. 28
General note
References: Finzi 252
Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945.
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 3
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1925 December 30
General Physical Description note: TL 1 leaf. [Copy] With: Millard, ALS to W.A. Clark, June 10, 1926.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1926 Jun. 10
General note
References: Finzi 727
Box MS Wilde 16, Folder 1
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1930 February 7
General Physical Description note: ALS 4 p. Stationery headed: 35 Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex. Without typescript.
Clark shelfmark: D733L C596 1930 Feb. 7
General note
References: Finzi 361
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1687
Box MS Wilde 16, Folder 1
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1932 February 10
General Physical Description note: ALS 3 p. Stationery headed: 35 Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex. Attached on verso: Lord Alfred Douglas's calling card. Without
typescript.
Clark shelfmark: D733L C596 1932 Feb. 10
General note
References: Finzi 362
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1687
Box MS Wilde 16, Folder 1
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1932 March 11
General Physical Description note: ALS 2 p. Stationery headed: 35 Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex. Without typescript.
Clark shelfmark: D733L C596 1932 Mar. 11
General note
References: Finzi 363
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1687
Box MS Wilde 16, Folder 1
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1932 April 12
General Physical Description note: ALS 2 p. Stationery headed: 35 Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex. Without typescript.
Clark shelfmark: D733L C596 1932 Apr. 12
General note
References: Finzi 364
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1687
Box MS Wilde 16, Folder 1
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1932 July 30
General Physical Description note: ALS 6 p. Stationery headed: 35 Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex. Without typescript.
Clark shelfmark: D733L C596 1932 Jul. 30
General note
References: Finzi 365
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1687
Box MS Wilde 16, Folder 1
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1932 September 21
General Physical Description note: ALS 2 p. Stationery headed: 35 Fourth Avenue, Hove, Sussex. Without typescript.
Clark shelfmark: D733L C596 1932 Sept. 21
General note
References: Finzi 366
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1687
Holland, Vyvyan Beresford, 1886-1967.
Box MS Wilde 32, Folder 21
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1923 August 18
General Physical Description note: TLS 4 leaves. Stationery headed: 41 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, SW. 3.
Clark shelfmark: H737L C596 1923 Aug. 18
General note
References: Finzi 1120
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1381; Wilde 33-8
Box MS Wilde 32, Folder 21
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1923 November 26
General Physical Description note: ALS 4 p. Stationery headed: 41 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, SW. 3. Without typescript.
Clark shelfmark: H737L C596 1923 Nov. 26
General note
References: Finzi 1121
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1381; Wilde 33-9
Box MS Wilde 32, Folder 21
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1926 December 14
General Physical Description note: ALS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: 41 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, SW. 3. With this: ALS from
Kate Rorke to
Oscar Wilde, illustrating an alternate spelling of Wilde's name.
Clark shelfmark: H737L C596 1926 Dec. 14
General note
References: Finzi 1122
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1381; Wilde 33-10
Box MS Wilde 32, Folder 21
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1927 March 16
General Physical Description note: ANS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: 41 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, SW. 3. Extracted from: Wilde, Oscar.
Bezvyznamna zena. V Praza, 1927. [*PR5820, W871, 1927]
Clark shelfmark: H737L C596 1927 Mar. 16
General note
References: Finzi 1123
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1381; Wilde 33-11
Box Wildeiana 1, item 31
B.F. Stevens and Brown
1922 March 7
General Physical Description note: ALS. Declining their offer of painting. With this: Photocopy of ALS from B.F. Stevens and Brown to Henry E. Huntington offering
him a painting of Oscar Wilde, February 17, 1922.
Kennard, Coleridge, Sir, 1885-
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 3
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1926 June 10
General Physical Description note: TL 1 leaf. Typed copy of a letter dated, Feb. 21, 1926. With: Millard, ALS to W.A. Clark, June 10, 1926.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1926 Jun. 10
General note
References: Finzi 1251
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368
Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950.
Box MS Wilde 36, Folder 54
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1923 December 3
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Anderson Galleries, Park Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street, New York.
Clark shelfmark: K36L C596 1923 Dec. 3
General note
References: Finzi 1252
Box MS Wilde 36, Folder 54
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1923 December 22
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Anderson Galleries, Park Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street, New York.
Clark shelfmark: K36L C596 1923 Dec. 22
General note
References: Finzi 1253
Kimball, Ingalls, 1874-1933.
Box MS Wilde 55, Folder 30
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 May 22
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Cheltenham Press, 4 West Fortieth Street, New York. With: Rosenbach, TLS to W. A. Clark,
Jr., May 19, 1922.
Clark shelfmark: R813L C596 1922 May 19
General note
References: Finzi 1256
Louisville Free Public Library.
Box MS Wilde 40, Folder 25
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1931 March 25
General Physical Description note: TLS 2 leaves. Stationery headed: Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Ky.
Clark shelfmark: L8885L C596 1931 Mar. 25
General note
References: Finzi 1421
Box Wildeiana 10, item 12
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
1982 September 14
General Physical Description note: TLS
Millard, Christopher Sclater, 1872-1927.
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 July 25
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: From the Bungalow at 8 Abercorn Place, London, N. W. 8. With this: TLS from Christopher Millard
to W. A. Clark, dated July 12 1922; and TLS from Ernest Dressel North to W. A. Clark, dated August 10, 1922.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1922 Jul. 25
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 August 31
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: "Christopher Millard. The Bungalow at 8 Abercorn Place, London, N. W. 8." With this: Carbon
copy of a letter from William Andrew Clark, Jr. to Christopher Millard, dated 18 Sep. 1922.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1922 Aug. 31
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 October 9
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow at 8 Abercorn Place, London, N. W. 8. With this: Five typed leaves, signed Stuart
Mason, 9 Oct. 1922, containing notes on William Andrews Clark Memorial Library's Catalog of "Wilde and Wildeana."
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1922 Oct. 9
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1923 December 17
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: Christopher Millard, The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, London, NW 3.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1923 Dec. 17
General note
References: Finzi 1513
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.20
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1924 December 29
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, NW 3.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1924 Dec. 29
General note
References: Finzi 1514
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.19
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1925 July 28
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Mimeographed circular letter. Concerns
For Love of the King and Mabel WodeHouse-Pearse. With this: 1st and 2nd editions of the pamphlet,
Who Wrote "For Love of the King"?
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1925 Jul. 28
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1925 August 10
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: Christopher Millard, The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, N. W. 8.... Contains references to Carl
Sternheim's play, "Oscar Wilde," and to
For Love of the King. With this: Poster advertising pamphlet
Who Wrote "For Love of the King"?
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1925 Aug. 10
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 2
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1925 October 30
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, NW. 3. With this: 11 leaves of quotations of Oscar Wilde material.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1925 Oct. 30
General note
References: Finzi 1515
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.23
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 3
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1926 June 10
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, N.W.8. With this: 6 leaves of typescripts of letters from Alfred
Douglas, Roy Kennard, Frank Harris.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1926 Jun. 10
General note
References: Finzi 1516
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.24
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 3
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1926 July 30
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, N.W.8. With this: 7 leaves of quotations of Oscar Wilde's manuscripts.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1926 Jul. 30
General note
References: Finzi 1517
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.25
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 3
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1926 September 28
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf.Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, NW 3.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1926 Sept. 28
General note
References: Finzi 1518
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.26
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 4
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1927 April 25
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, N.W.8. With this: 9 leaves of quotations of Oscar Wilde's material.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1927 Apr. L 25
General note
References: Finzi 1519
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.27
Box MS Wilde 44, Folder 4
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1927 May 26
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Bungalow, 8 Abercorn Place, N.W.8. With this: 32 leaves of quotations of Oscar Wilde's
material.
Clark shelfmark: M645L C596 1927May 26
General note
References: Finzi 1520
Also available on microfilm:
CLC 1368.28
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-
Box Wildeiana 11.1 (formerly)
Hyde, Harford Montgomery, 1907-1989.
1951-1952
General Physical Description note: 11 letters. Powell inquiring and arranging for the microfilming of all the Oscar Wilde material in the British Museum for
the Clark Library. These items appear to be missing as of 2/25/2010.
Rosenbach, Abraham Simon Wolf, 1876-1952.
Box MS Wilde 55, Folder 30
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 May 19
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Rosenbach Company. With this: Another TLS from Rosenbach, dated May 26, 1922; also, TLS
from Brentano's to Rosenbach, and TNS from Ingalls Kimball of the Cheltenham Press to Rosenbach.
Clark shelfmark: R8131L C596 1922 May 19
General note
References: Finzi 1828
Box MS Wilde 55, Folder 30
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 May 26
General Physical Description note: TLS 1 leaf. Stationery headed: The Rosenbach Company. With: Rosenbach, TLS to W. A. Clark, May 19, 1922.
Clark shelfmark: R8131L C596 1922 May 19
General note
References: Finzi 1829
Box MS Wilde 55, Folder 35
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
1951-1952
General Physical Description note: 25 items. Various pages and sizes. Correspondence between Margery Ross, wife of a nephew of Robert Ross, and the Clark Library
(H. Richard Archer and Lawrence Clark Powell) about her edition of Robert Ross letters, pub. by Cape in 1952.
Clark shelfmark: R824L 1951-1952
Box MS Wilde 62, Folder 12
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1931 August 20
General Physical Description note: ALS 2 p. Stationery headed: William E. Sethman, 6214 Wakefield Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Letter accompanied gift of 2 mss.
Dealing with Oscar Wilde: Cf. Hedemann, Franzisca, baroness von. "[Two articles on Oscar Wilde]", [H452M3 T974].
Clark shelfmark: S495 C596 1931 Aug. 20
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 52
Postcard from the Hotel d'Alsace to
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-
1956
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 23
Various booksellers and collectors,
ca. 1998-2003
General Physical Description note: Includes copies of letters and emails to and from Bruce Whiteman regarding sales of Wilde-related items.
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937.
Box MS Wilde 83, Folder 11
Clark, William Andrews, Jr., 1877-1934.
1922 November 29
General Physical Description note: ALS 4 p. Stationery headed: "Kirkstead," 25 Heath Drive, Hampstead, NW. 3.
Clark shelfmark: W813L C596 1922 Nov. 29
Exhibitions and Collections 2.2
1951-1995
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains lists, posters, photographs and other materials relating to the display and inventory of collections
of Oscar Wilde papers in institutional and private settings. Arrangement is alphabetical by institution or person and then
by assigned title.
Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 40
Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco, Invitation for "Oscar Wilde and the Church of Rome," a talk by Wade C. Hughan
1995 October 15
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 54
Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco, Invitation for "The Importance of Being Oscar," a lecture by John Paterson,
1966 October 9
General Physical Description note: Also a viewing of an exhibition of Edgar Newton Kierluff's collection on Oscar Wilde.
Box Wildeiana 5, Folder 18
Photographs and exhibition labels from an exhibit of Mary Hyde Eccles' Oscar Wilde collection at the Grolier Club,
1965 October
General Physical Description note: 8 Photos, black and white, 20.5 x 25.5 cm and 24 labels. Gift of Lady Eccles, July 1966 (MS.1966.002)
Ireland. National Library.
Box MS Wilde 34, Folder 8
Wildeana. Collection of photostats of manuscripts and pamphlets in the National Library of Ireland.
1951
General Physical Description note: Photostats. 50 leaves.
Clark shelfmark: I65L W6725 1951
General note
References: Finzi 1238
Box Wildeiana 23, Folder 8
"Rediscovering Oscar Wilde" conference poster, The International Conference of Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco,
1993
General Physical Description note: 59.5 x 40 cm.
Box MS Wilde 50, Folder 1-2
Assorted correspondence, announcements, speeches, etc.
1954
General Physical Description note: 50 pieces. Various sizes.
Clark shelfmark: O812Z O812 [1954]
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 49
Clippings, catalogs, and letters
1954 October
General Physical Description note: 27 items.
Box MS Wilde 50, Folder 1-2
Correspondence regarding Oscar Wilde centenary luncheon.
1954
General Physical Description note: 258 letters. Various sizes.
Clark shelfmark: O812Z C824 [1954]
Box Wildeiana 20, Folder 20
Lawrence Clark Powell, "The Clark collection of Oscar Wilde," (typescript)
1953 March 18
General Physical Description note: 3 leaves. Story of how Powell acquired 2 rare manuscripts for the Clark Wilde collection. Formerly 5 leaves, but only 3 are
extant as of 2010.
Queensberry, Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, 10th marquis, 1896-1954.
Box MS Wilde 52, Folder 7
A collection of holograph manuscripts and printed books by or relating to Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas.
1951 May 15
General Physical Description note: Typescript. 3 leaves. Typed list of the Marquess of Queensberry's collection. With this: ANS from Lord Queensberry's secretary
to Dr. Lawrence Clark Powell, May 15, 1951.
Clark shelfmark: Q24Z C697 1951 May 15
General note
References: Finzi 1712
Booksellers' Catalogs 2.3
1922-1981, undated
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains lists and catalogs provided by booksellers offering Oscar Wilde materials. It is arranged alphabetically
by bookseller name (according to the letter at the start of the bookseller's name which is not always an individual's last
name; for instance 'Hollings, Frank' appears before 'James F. Drake') and date.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 57
Catalogue. Sale no.131
1948 June 11
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 58
Catalogue. Sale no.131, p. 27/28
1948 June 11
General Physical Description note: 1 leaf (p. 27/28).
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 21
Special list "M"
1950
General Physical Description note: 1 leaf describing 2 ALS
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 20
Special list "O"
1950
General Physical Description note: 1 leaf describing ALS from Wilde to his publishers
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 9
Special list "P"
1952 October 28
General Physical Description note: 5 leaves containing some Oscar Wilde material, including one loose leaf.
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 8
Special list "LI"
1953
General Physical Description note: 5 leaves containing some Oscar Wilde material, also includes one page of unidentified list.
Mixed Materials Wildeiana 1, Folder 8
Catalogue, correspondence and photocopies of other material related to Harper Pennington portrait of Oscar Wilde
1922
General Physical Description note: Dealer's description with information about provenance; photocopy of ALS from B.F. Stevens and Brown to Henry E. Huntington
offering him the painting, February 17, 1922; photocopy of ALS from Henry E. Huntington to B.F. Stevens and Brown declining
their offer, March 7, 1922.
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 37
Catalogue no. 714, pp. 43-44,
undated
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 14
Clipping from catalogue #20 with a description of
The ballad of Reading Gaol (1903) and
The priest and the acolyte,
undated
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 35
Leaf from catalog 118,
1955 May
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 30
Catalogue 105, item 1160,
1947 April
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 33
Catalogue 128,
1952 Autumn
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 2
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 24
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 40
2 leaves from a catalogue
1956 May 21
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 16
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 34
Catalogue 17,
1952 November 4
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 19
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 22
List 1133,
1949 October
General Physical Description note: Includes a letter by Lord Alfred Douglas
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 38
Box Wildeiana 6.1J (formerly)
Catalogue no. 232.
1948
General Physical Description note: Includes some unusual Aubrey Beardsley material. This item appears to be missing as of 2/25/2010.
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 15
1 leaf offering 2 Wilde items
undated
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 10
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 27
40th anniversary sale catalog, clipping description of 5 Wilde items,
1947 November
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 32
Leaf from unknown catalogue,
undated
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 4
6 Wilde items pasted onto 2 leaves,
1939 July 12
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 25
Catalogue 773, item 68
1948 April
General Physical Description note: Alfred Douglas' typescript of
Oscar Wilde
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 1
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 23
List containing Wilde items accompanied by TLS to H. Richard Archer.
1951 April 5
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 31
Catalogue 811,
1952 November 29
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 36
Catalogue 814, item 779,
1953 April
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 11
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 43
Catalogue 692, lot 26.703,
1957 October
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 7
Catalogue no. 351, page 50
1948 Spring
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 5
Catalogue no. 351
1948 Spring
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 13
Clipping from a catalogue describing 2 ALS from Oscar Wilde to Cyril Maude and Joseph Anderson,
1951 August 20
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 28
List no. 8, item 220,
1947 December
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 3
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 59
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, including the property of the Marquess and Marchioness of Queensberry,
1952 March 10-11
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 12
Leaf containing description of a notebook by Oscar Wilde,
undated
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 17
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books,
1950 April 3
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 18
Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books,
1951 March 12
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 39
De Coppet sale catalogue, lot 1746 (2 leaves)
1956 May 29
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 41
Shaw sale (2 leaves)
1957 May 20
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 42
Leaf with one Wilde item (lot 315),
1957 November 25
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 44
Leaf with descriptions of 2 Wilde items and 1 Beardsley item,
1958 April 21-22
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 26
Catalog 211, page 13 (description of 2 Wilde items),
1948 June 10
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 6
2 leaves of auction catalog
1949 February 10
Box Wildeiana 8, Folder 29
Description of
The Duchess of Padua original manuscript
undated
Book Announcements 2.4
1887-1954
Scope and Contents note
This subseries contains publisher's announcements of the publication of editions of Wilde's works and books about Oscar Wilde.
The subseries is arranged by publisher.
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 24
Editorial Mayfe (Madrid), Announcement for
Salome, drama en un acto, illustrated by Andres Lambert,
1953
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 2
Advertisement for
The Yellow Book,
1896 January
General Physical Description note: Poster. Lists contents of vol. VIII and illustrated with reproduction of an Aubrey Beardsley drawing.
Box Wildeiana 9, Folder 1
"Announcement of a new and greatly enlarged series of
The Lady's World under the title of
The Woman's World,
1887 October 26
General Physical Description note: 23 x 29 1/2 cm, mounted on card 28 1/2 x 41 cm.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-21
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 22
Rodale Press prospectus for
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: A Study in Duty
1954
General Physical Description note: With insert entitled: "Rodale Press aims at high standard of craftsmanship. Will use best British book printers."
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 39
Prospectus for privately printed edition of
The Duchess of Padua: a Tragedy of the Sixteenth Century ,
1903
General Physical Description note: Includes lengthy review by William Archer.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-25
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 38
Prospectus for privately printed edition of
The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports,
1906
General Physical Description note: Paris: Privately printed.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-26
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 31
"Out of copyright" newspaper fragment,
1950
General Physical Description note: From an unknown newspaper. Announcement of the publication of Oscar Wilde's
Essays, edited by Hesketh Pearson.
Box Wildeiana 4.1H (formerly)
Wm. H. Wise and Co. (New York). Oscar Wilde's genius dominant today!
1927
General Physical Description note: Four page advertisement for the printing of a deluxe edition of
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.This item appears to be missing as of 2/25/2010.
Also available on microfilm:
Wilde 37-27
Box Wildeiana 6, Folder 45
Advertisement for Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith's
Oscar Wilde Discovers America,
Saturday Review of Literature.
1936 May 23
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