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1. Add MS 50141 A-B

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50141 A-B
Title:: OSCAR WILDE: 'DE PROFUNDIS', the letter addressed by him to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol; Jan.-Mar. 1897
Scope & Content:: First printed in full in The Letters of Oscar Wilde, ed. Sir R. C. Hart-Davis, 1962, pp. 423-511. See also S. Mason (C. S. Millard), Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, 1914, pp. 442-57, which includes, on pp. 448, 449, a facsimile of f. 31 of the manuscript; De Profundis, ed. V. B. Holland, 1949, pp. 10, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jan 1897-Mar 1897
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50141 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. I, ff.40. Autograph, partly fair copy. The letter was given its title on its first publication, severely expurgated, by R. B. Ross in 1905; Jan.-Mar. 1897 Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, poet: `De Profundis'' addressed to,: 1897. Oscar Fingal O''Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: `De Profundis'': 1897: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jan 1897-Mar 1897
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50141 B
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II, ff. i+132, typewritten carbon copy, circa 1908-1909, of most of the passages not included in the version prepared by Ross for the first collected edition of Wilde's works, 1908 (note by Ross on f. i). Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, poet: `De Profundis' addressed to,: 1897. Oscar Fingal O'Flaher...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1908-1909
Extent:: 1 item