Eccles Bequest. Vol. CLXVIII. Photograph of the Hotel D' Alsace, where Wilde died; n.d. Art. Photographs: Hotel D'Alsace; Paris: Photograph of the hotel where Oscar Wilde died: [1900-1910].
Eccles Bequest. Vol. CXXXVIII. Miscellaneous papers as follows; 1895-1947. Mostly autograph. 1. Plea of Lord Alfred Douglas made before the Chancery Court as part of his action against Colonel Frederick Hambleton Custance, father of Olive Douglas, over the custody of Douglas's son Raymond; 1912...
Eccles Bequest. Vol. CC. Framed charcoal and pastel portrait of Robert Baldwin Ross by William Rothenstein; 1898. Sir William Rothenstein, Principal, Royal College of Art: Charcoal and pastel portrait of Robert Ross by Rothenstein: n.d.
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 ...
Eccles Bequest. Vol. LXXXIV. Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Sybil, Marchioness of Queensberry; [1893]-[1935], n.d. Brown quarter morocco box and cloth flapcase. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, poet: Sybil Montgomery Douglas, mother of Lord Alfred Douglas; 1st wife of John Sholto, 9th Mar...
Eccles Bequest. Vols. I, II. 'The Duchess of Padua'; 1882-1883. Autograph. Five act play originally titled 'The Duchess of Florence'. Wilde began writing the play in 1882 and completed it in Paris in 1883. It was written with the intention that it would be produced by and star Mary Anderson. Wilde entered into an agreement with Anderson's manager, Hamilton Griffin, to complete the play by 1 March 1883, and in fact completed it on 15 March. In the end Anderson rejected the play stating that ...