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21. Add MS 81630

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XII. 'Roses and Rue'; [circa 1880]. Autograph manuscript comprising fifteen stanzas of verse with revisions and corrections by Wilde. Written for Lillie Langtry. It also contains a small printed version by the Overbrook Press, Connecticut; 1962. Mounted in green cloth folde...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1962
Extent:
1 item

22. Add MS 81643

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Oscar Wilde, 'A Note on Shakespeare', with printed copy of The Nineteenth Century (May 1885)
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Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXV. Autograph draft titled 'A Note on Shakespeare', with corrections. The note, on two sides of a single folio, contains a draft of the first few paragraphs of Wilde's article titled, 'Shakespeare and Stage Costume' for The Nineteenth Cen...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1885]
Extent:
1 item

23. Add MS 81635

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XVII. ''Dogmas for the Use of the Ages''; bef. March 1891. Autograph manuscript drafts of epigrams. Later used as part of the preface to ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' in the March 1891 edition of the Fortnightly Review. It was added to the first book edition in April 1891. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before Mar 1891
Extent:
1 item

24. Add MS 81622

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Oscar Wilde, notebook containing ideas and dialogues for A Woman of No Importance
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Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. IV. Sketchbook containing draft notes including plot lines, dialogues and lists of characters for Oscar Wilde's play, A Woman of No Importance, a comedy examining the morals of Victorian English upper class society. It was first produced b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1891-1892]
Extent:
1 volume

25. Add MS 81631

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XIII. 'Panthea'; [bef. 1881]. Autograph manuscript with revisions and corrections by Wilde. Twenty of the thirty stanzas of the poem. It belonged to Robert Baldwin Ross, and was given to him by Christopher Millard. First published in Poems (1881). Boards covered with patt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[before 1881]
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 81648

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXX. Miscellaneous notes for essays, articles and inscriptions; 1886-1948, n.d. Mostly autograph. 1. Review by Wilde of Harry Quilter, 'Sententia Artis', published in the Pall Mall Gazette; [circa 16 Nov. 1886]. Printed. With a letter from Wilde to the editor of the Pall Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1886-1948
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 81634

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XVI. ''Ballad of Reading Gaol''; 1897-1898. Printed proof sheets with autograph corrections for the first edition. The final work that Wilde wrote. Black full morocco slipcase with blue cloth flapcase. Oscar Fingal O''Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Proof sheets with autog...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1898
Extent:
1 item

28. Add MS 81621

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Oscar Wilde, typescript of Act I of Lady Windermere's Fan, with autograph corrections
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Copyright: © Estate of Oscar Wilde. Eccles Bequest. Vol. III. Typescript of Act I of Oscar Wilde's play, Lady Windermere's Fan, with extensive autograph corrections and additions. It was first produced on 20 February 1892 at St. James's Theatre, London, by George Alexander. Its Broadway premiere...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1891]
Extent:
1 volume

29. Add MS 81650 A-E

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXXII A-E. Stage works and poems; 1894-1917, n.d. Mostly autograph. Five parts.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1894-1917
Extent:
1 item

30. Add MS 81666

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Eccles Bequest. Vol. XLVIII. 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'; [1933]. Typewritten draft of 'True History of Shakespeare's Sonnets' with autograph annotations. Brown cloth box with yellow leather spine. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, poet: Manuscript 'Shakespeare's Sonnets': [1933]: Typewritten.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1933]
Extent:
1 item