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Ashley MS B3630
- Record Id:
- 040-001979559
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001978147
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001448.0x000304
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Ashley MS B3630
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
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Two Letters from Robert Ross to Edmund Gosse, the earlier (ff. 167-168b) sending a photograph (f. 169) of Oscar Wilde on his death-bed, explaining the photograph, describing Wilde's grave, and denying that he is the author of a life of Wilde which has been advertised, the later (ff. 170, 170b) expressing his opinion of a vase of which he had been sent a photograph; 5 Feb. 1902, 27 Sept. 1918. On the verso of the later letter Gosse has noted 'This was Robert Ross's last letter to me. He died at 6.30 p.m. on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 5, 1918'. [Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 122].
includes:
- ff. 167-170b Sir Edmund William Gosse, writer: Robert Baldwin Ross, literary executor of Oscar Wilde: Letters, the earlier rel. to the death of Oscar Wilde, to Sir Edmund William Gosse from Robert Baldwin Ross: 1902, 1918.
- f. 169 Art. Portraits: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Photograph of Oscar Wilde on his death-bed: 1900.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Ashley Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001978147
040-001979559 - Is part of:
- Ashley MS A17-5768 : Ashley Manuscripts
Ashley MS B3630 : Two Letters from Robert Ross to Edmund Gosse, the earlier (ff. 167-168b) sending a photograph (f. 169) of Oscar Wilde on… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001978147[0870]/040-001979559
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Ashley MS A17-5768
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1902
- End Date:
- 1918
- Date Range:
- 1902-1918
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former Internal References:
- Vol. B VI, ff. 167-170b.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gosse, Edmund William, Knight, writer, 1849-1928
Ross, Robert Baldwin, literary executor of Oscar Wilde
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, author, 1854-1900