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Add MS 50141 A-B
- Record Id:
- 032-002083380
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002083380
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000039.0x0003ca
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 50141 A-B
- Title:
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OSCAR WILDE: 'DE PROFUNDIS', the letter addressed by him to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol; Jan.-Mar. 1897
- Scope & Content:
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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, 11; and Hart-Davis, ed. cit., pp. 423, 424n. Presented in November 1909, with Add. MSS. 37942-37948, by his literary executor, Robert Baldwin Ross, Esq.
Paper. Folio and quarto.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002083380", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 50141 A-B: OSCAR WILDE: 'DE PROFUNDIS', the letter addressed by him to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol; Jan.-Mar. 1897" },{ "id" : "040-002083381", "parent" : "032-002083380", "text" : "Add MS 50141 A: Vol. I, ff.40. Autograph, partly fair copy. The letter was given its title on its first publication, severely expurgated, by R. B.…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002083382", "parent" : "032-002083380", "text" : "Add MS 50141 B: 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…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002083380
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 50141 A : Vol. I, ff.40. Autograph, partly fair copy. The letter was given its title on its first publication, severely expurgated, by R.…
Add MS 50141 B : Vol. II, ff. i+132, typewritten carbon copy, circa 1908-1909, of most of the passages not included in the version prepared by Ross…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 2 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1897
- End Date:
- 1897
- Date Range:
- Jan 1897-Mar 1897
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Legal Status:
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