Légende

Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas from his father Lord Queensberry, c1890s. '24 James Street, Buckingham Gate, Thursday 24th. My dear Bosie, I dare say a Tip will be acceptable so I send you a cheque for [£20?] as I have some spare cash. Have not heard of or from you for ever so long, don't be so foolish as to think any more about the [?] of my speaking to you about your...[handwriting]'. Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred his son's relationship with Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued Queensberry for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were found and Wilde was later imprisoned, and died in 1900. From "Oscar Wilde and Myself" by Lord Alfred Douglas. [London, 1914].

Date

1890

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A16_172

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,4Mo) / 27,4cm x 45,6cm / 3241 x 5389 (300dpi)

Mots clés

library job relationship arts warning occupation British letter century Britain profession literature concept sexuality correspondence sexual scandal B&W homosexuality British Library disapproval writer author 19th century black & white black and white B W poet nineteenth century novelist photogravure manuscript Oscar Wilde Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Douglas Lord Alfred Douglas Marquis of Queensberry Sir John Sholto Douglas Marquess of Queensberry Bosie Queensberry Marquis of Oscar Heritage Art 19th-century Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde Lord Alfred Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas John Douglas 9th Marquess of Queensberry John Douglas Sir John Douglas Douglas John John Sholto Douglas Douglas John Sholto