Eccles Bequest. Vol. XX. 'Irish Poets of '48 (II)'; [circa 1882]. Autograph draft of lecture with revisions by Wilde. Grey board cover. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Lecture 'Irish Poets of '48 (II)': [1882].
Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXI. 'Lecture to Art Students'; June 1883. Autograph draft of lecture with revisions and corrections by Wilde. Grey board cover. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Lecture 'Lecture to Art Students', June: 1883.
Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXII. 'Plays of Sophocles'; [1864-1878]. Autograph schoolboy notes for essay with sketches. Acquired from John Fleming. Red quarter morocco flapcase. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Schoolboy notes and sketches rel. to 'Plays of Sophocles': [1864-1878].
Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXIII 'Hellenism'; [1877]. Autograph draft of essay with revisions and corrections. Written by Wilde while studying at Oxford, probably after a visit to Greece. Grey board cover. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Essay 'Hellenism' with revisions and correction...
Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXIV. 'More Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform'; [1884]. Autograph draft of essay, first published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 11 November 1884. Reprinted in Miscellanies (1908). Grey board cover. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Article 'More Radical Ideas Upon D...
Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXVI. 'The Function of Criticism: A Dialogue'; [1890]. Autograph draft of essay with extensive corrections and revisions. This is possibly the basis for an article published in The Nineteenth Century, July-September 1890, entitled 'The True Function and Value in Criticism w...
Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXVII. 'De Profundis' Typescript with autograph annotations; [1897]. Unpublished version which belonged to Christopher S. Millard (Stuart Mason). Box of black cloth and red marbled paper. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Manuscript 'De Profundis' with autograp...
Eccles Bequest. Vols. XXVII-XXIX. Papers relating to 'De Profundis'; 1895-1913, n.d. Fifty thousand word letter / essay written by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol. On release, Wilde gave the manuscript to Robert Baldwin Ross, who published a suppressed copy (about two thirds of the original) in 1905. This was expanded slightly for the Collected Works (1908). A limited edition was later published in New York that included certain portions of the suppressed sections. Ross ...