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- Record Id:
- 040-001987507
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001987335
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000196.0x0002f7
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 81755
- Title:
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Autograph album of Constance Wilde
- Scope & Content:
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Eccles Bequest. Vol. CXXXVII. Autograph album or guest book of Constance Wilde. It includes a signature of John Ruskin (f. 22), notes and epigrams of Walter Crane (f. 12), Algernon Charles Swinburne (f. 16), Edward Maitland (f. 20) and William and Jane Morris (f. 23), sketches by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts (f. 45) and Arthur Severn (f. 47), musical passages inscribed by Johannes Wolff (f. 26), Pablo Sarasate (f. 32) and C. Hubert Parry (f. 37), and a poem by Oscar Wilde dated 1886 (f. 2).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001987335
036-001987494
040-001987507 - Is part of:
- Add MS 81619-81884 : Eccles Bequest
Add MS 81751 A-81756 : Family papers of Oscar Wilde and others; late 19th century
Add MS 81755 : Autograph album of Constance Wilde - Hierarchy:
- 032-001987335[0005]/036-001987494[0005]/040-001987507
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 81619-81884
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (83 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1886
- End Date:
- 1896
- Date Range:
- 1886-1896
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Folios 49, 51-64, 66-82 are blank
- Source of Acquisition:
- Sothebys 1987
- Exhibitions:
- Friendship Before Facebook: Social Networks in a Pre-Digital Age, The Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery, The British Library, London, 26 February 2019 - 12 May 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wilde, Constance Mary, wife of Oscar Wilde, 1859-1898