Primary Sources: People - Victorian Era: Wilde, Oscar

Includes transcript excerpts, letters, images, etc.

"In fall 2008, The Morgan Library & Museum received the gift of a highly important bound collection of Oscar Wilde's letters and manuscripts, the whereabouts of which has been unknown to scholars for over half a century. This digital facsimile provides images and transcriptions of all the items housed in the volume."

Listen to works by Oscar Wilde.

5 Mar. 1893, with postscripts 6, 9 Mar.; 25 Mar. 1893; Two autograph letters received from Lord Alfred Douglas, The Close, Salisbury, when Schwabe was on route from England to Australia and New Zealand. Douglas addresses Schwabe as 'Pretty Boy' and signs himself 'Bosie'. Douglas writes about their mutual acquaintances and informs Schwabe that Oscar Wilde is being blackmailed by Alfred Wood over letters written by Wilde to Douglas.

25 Oct. 1894; Letter received from his mother, giving him financial advice and stating that she fears he has fallen in with bad companions in Sydney.

"presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Included are a number of trials of the wealthy and renowned such as an account of the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde, and the trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, the famous architect who was Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's lover. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong or their relationships did not conform to social standards." Harvard University Library