Act 3, Lord D's House : London : autograph manuscript, 1891.

Record ID: 
120344
Accession number: 
MA 3576
Author: 
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Credit: 
Gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Description: 
1 item (24 p.), bound ; 23.0
Notes: 

A draft of Act III, Lady Windermere's Fan; commissioned in 1890 and believed to have been written during the summer of 1891.

Summary: 

Written on the rectos and 8 versos of 16 leaves with additions and revisions throughout; on lined pages of a notebook from "Harding, Stationer, 45 Piccadilly W."

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.9 cm)
Binding: 
Blue marbled paper wrappers.
Provenance: 
Gift of Frederick R. Koch in 1981; from the collections of Richard Butlet Glaenzer and Marjorie Wiggin Prescott; purchased at the Prescott sale, Christie's New York, February 1981.