Lot 277
Wilde (Oscar) Autograph Letter signed, with photographic portrait, 1889.
Hammer Price: £5,000
Description
Wilde (Oscar, writer, 1854-1900) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Temple, 1p., 8vo, 16 Tite Street, Chelsea, S.W., n.d., refusing an invitation from Lady Mount Temple as he is going away for a few days, together with a photographic portrait of Wilde, mounted, framed & glazed
⁂ Georgina Cowper-Temple (1821-1901, Lady Mount Temple), step-daughter-in-law of Lord Palmerston, was a distant cousin and close friend of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance. The Wildes often stayed at the Mount Temples' house Babbacombe Cliff, near Torquay in Devon, Wilde writing part of his plays there, and in 1893 Wilde stayed there with his children and Lord Alfred Douglas and his tutor while Constance was in Florence.
Description
Wilde (Oscar, writer, 1854-1900) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Temple, 1p., 8vo, 16 Tite Street, Chelsea, S.W., n.d., refusing an invitation from Lady Mount Temple as he is going away for a few days, together with a photographic portrait of Wilde, mounted, framed & glazed
⁂ Georgina Cowper-Temple (1821-1901, Lady Mount Temple), step-daughter-in-law of Lord Palmerston, was a distant cousin and close friend of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance. The Wildes often stayed at the Mount Temples' house Babbacombe Cliff, near Torquay in Devon, Wilde writing part of his plays there, and in 1893 Wilde stayed there with his children and Lord Alfred Douglas and his tutor while Constance was in Florence.
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