Autograph letter from the Irish writer and leader of the Aesthetic Movement, and author of such works as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Happy Prince.
The letter is dated ‘Thursday’ in Wilde’s hand. There is a possibility that Wilde was referring to his engagement to lecture in Bridgeton, New Jersey, on Thursday 26 October. Wilde is known to have stayed overnight in Bridgeton, because he was interviewed on the train back to New York the following morning (Marland, R. (2022) The Complete Interviews, p. 488). Provenance: The Anderson Galleries; The Collection of the Late George P. Elder; sale 1098; 15 Oct. 1914; p. 67; lot 573.
Stephen Massett was an English-born poet-actor, song and dance artist, composer, essayist, lawyer, auctioneer, notary public, and "wandering minstrel in many lands." He was best known to San Francisco as "Jeems Pipes of Pipesville," his nom de plume as a writer of humorous prose.
Autograph letter from the Irish writer and leader of the Aesthetic Movement, and author of such works as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Happy Prince.
The letter is dated ‘Thursday’ in Wilde’s hand. There is a possibility that Wilde was referring to his engagement to lecture in Bridgeton, New Jersey, on Thursday 26 October. Wilde is known to have stayed overnight in Bridgeton, because he was interviewed on the train back to New York the following morning (Marland, R. (2022) The Complete Interviews, p. 488). Provenance: The Anderson Galleries; The Collection of the Late George P. Elder; sale 1098; 15 Oct. 1914; p. 67; lot 573.
Stephen Massett was an English-born poet-actor, song and dance artist, composer, essayist, lawyer, auctioneer, notary public, and "wandering minstrel in many lands." He was best known to San Francisco as "Jeems Pipes of Pipesville," his nom de plume as a writer of humorous prose.