Record ID:
282134
Accession number:
MA 7258.8
Date:
ca. 1884.
Credit:
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008.
Description:
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 17.6 x 22.6 cm
Notes:
A fair copy sent to the organizers of the Shakespearean Show held at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 1884 to raise money for the Chelsea Hospital for Women; used to set type for the poem's first publication in the accompanying "Shakespearean Show Book."
With a note at the end of the manuscript in Wilde's hand: "N.B. Proof to be sent to 9 Charles St. / Grosvenor Sqre."
With a numerical calculation written on the verso of the first leaf.
Summary:
Being four 8-line stanzas written on the rectos of 4 pages, with one stanza to a page; minor revision on the last page.
Provenance:
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles in 2008; from the collection of Francis, 11th Marquess of Queensberry; sold at auction in London in 1951; offered by Maggs, 1953; location unknown from 1953 until its acquisition by Walter and Lucia Moreira Salles (year of acquisition unknown).
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