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Title:: 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 dona...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895-1913
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81645
Title:
Scope & Content:: 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 Unpublished version which belonged to Christopher S. Millard (Stuart Mason).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 autograph anno...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: [1897]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81646
Title:
Scope & Content:: Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXVIII. Photographic facsimile of original manuscript version of 'De Profundis' (Add. 50141 A); n.d. Blue half morocco binding. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Manuscript 'De Profundis': 1897: Copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1897
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 81647
Title:
Scope & Content:: Eccles Bequest. Vol. XXIX. Papers relating to 'De Profundis'; 1913-1945. 1. Typescript with autograph ink and pencil corrections, possibly by Robert Baldwin Ross, of New York 'suppressed' version; 1913. 2. Photocopy of the New York suppressed version; 1913. 3. Payment by Alexander Galt Ross for the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1913-1945
Extent:: 1 item