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Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas from his father Lord Queensberry, c1890s. '...handwriting, If you take trouble you can improve it very much & it is a very important thing writing a good hand & also [shows?] very much the state one is in. I have been to Monte Carlo & won some money & then lost it all again, but did not do any harm & as it was terribly cold there [I came back to Paris...]'. 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_173

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,4Mo) / 27,6cm x 45,4cm / 3261 x 5357 (300dpi)

Mots clés

library job relationship arts occupation British letter text century Britain profession handwriting advice literature concept sexuality correspondence sexual scandal B&W homosexuality British Library lettering 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