by Neil McKenna
`see Lord Salisbury if necessary': the Prince of Wales to Sir Dighton Probyn, October 1889, in Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 90.
`Just seen Francis K': Lord Arthur Somerset to Reginald Brett, 17 October 1889, in Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 91.
`I felt that in writing to you': Sir Dighton Probyn to Lord Salisbury, in Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 96.
`I am still a professional Mary-Ann': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, page 52.
`since the 1st May, 1879': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, page 49.
`I complained to Hammond': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 145.
`a tall, fine-looking man': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, page 50.
`I picked him up': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 146.
`Where did you meet': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 144.
`an actual Sodomite': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 108.
`Be sure, if you see me': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 146.
`prompted': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 136.
`I rang the bell': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair page 144.
`a more melancholy': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 153.
`of this dreadful scandal': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 118.
Apples of Sodom
`In the study hall': Stokes, Oscar Wilde, page 58.
`What about the young': in Max Beerbohm, `Dorian Gray: An Examination Paper', Clark Library.
`Bless you, Oscar': Lionel Johnson, `In Honour of Dorian and his Creator', in Ellmann, page 324.
`I lunched with Pater': Lionel Johnson to Campbell Dodgson, 15 April 1889, in Rev. Raymond Roseliep, Some Letters of Lionel5ohnson (Indiana, 1957).
`Their eyes on fire': Linda Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (London, 1994), page 136.
`Dear Mr Johnson': Letters, page 423.
`On Saturday at mid-day': Letters, page 423.
`more like the head boy': in Lionel Johnson, Collected Poems, edited by Ian Fletcher (New York and London, 1982), page xxxi.
`a learned snowdrop': Michael Field, Works and Days: From the Journal of Michael Field, edited by T. and D. Sturge Moore (London, 1933), page 120.
`I hope you will let me know when': Letters, page 423.
`new boy': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, page 247, translated by Sian Jones.
`intoxicating': Lord Alfred Douglas to A.J.A. Symons, 8 July 1935, Clark Library.
`inordinately proud': the Marquess of Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas (London, 1949), page 49.
`I have not been able to find a trace': H. Montgomery Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas (London, 1984), page 7.
`to be worth two pence to anybody': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 6.
`delicate features': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 9.
`beautiful face': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 9.
`good abilities and good principles': Murray, Bosie, page 9.
`After Bosie's birth': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 26.
`When he was a child': Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 63.
a row': Hyde, Lord Al fred Douglas, page 14.
`a plot': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 33.
`filled with disgust and loathing': Symonds, Memoirs, page 94.
`Barber, annoyed and amused me': Symonds, Memoirs, pages 94-95.
`a sink of iniquity': Douglas, Autobiography.
`I remember thinking': Lord Alfred Douglas, Without Apology (London, 1938), page 316.
`at least ninety per cent': Douglas, Autobiography, page 26.
`own personal experience': Introduction to my Poems with Some Considerations on the Oscar Wilde Case, Clark Library.
`Six years at Winchester': unpublished manuscript of `The Dead Past' by Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, MS Eng misc. d1225, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
`In my time perhaps': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Bozie, as he was commonly called': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Young fellows are quite as much': Anonymous, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain: or the Recollections of a Mary Ann (London, 1881), page 65.
`the great public schools of England': Stokes, Oscar Wilde, page 57.
`If all persons guilty': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, pages 359-360.
`In the streets': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 222.
`Did you ever hear': Anonymous, The Sins of the City o f the Plain, page 119.
`which were neither pure': Douglas, Autobiography, page 26.
`Bosie, I love you more now': Murray, Bosie, page 62.
`bedfellow of Douglas at Winchester': Robert Ross to Frank Harris, 17 May 1914, HRC.
`I left Winchester': Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 26.
`the Temple of Eros': Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 26.
`a frank and natural pagan': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 76-77.
`pagan ethics': Douglas, Autobiography, page 28.
`quite certain of the truth': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 6 January 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 94.
Wild and terrible music
`I have never sowed': Barry Day, Oscar Wilde: A Life in Quotes (London, 2000), page 246.
`His was a peculiarly English': Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 25.
`gifted, or cursed': Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and Black Douglas, page 25.
`grass-gorged': Field, Works and Days, pages 139-140.
`Poke him and he would bleed': Elizabeth Robins, `Oscar Wilde: An Appreciation', Nineteenth Century Theatre, volume XXI, number 2 (1993), page 108.
`A big man, with a large pasty face': Marcel Schwob, December 1891, in Ellmann, page 346.
`Luxury - gold-tipped matches': Pine, Oscar Wilde, page 143. `remarkable and arresting': Douglas, Without Apology, page 75.
`We had tea in his little writing-room': Douglas, Autobiography, page 59.
`just the ordinary interchange': Douglas, Autobiography, page 84.
`Oscar took a violent fancy': Douglas, Without Apology, page 122.
`Alfred Douglas from his friend': Letters, page 461.
`From the second time he saw me': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, 20 March 1925, HRC.
`He "made up to me"': Douglas, Autobiography, page 75.
`Bosie, from his friend the author': Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 189.
`the one topic': Letters, page 692.
`the gutter and the things': Letters, page 684.
`I was always on the best of terms': Douglas, Autobiography, page 59.
`Cyprian was, or seemed to be': Raffalovich, A Willing Exile, page 79.
`Honesty compels me to say': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 59-60.
`Constance was here': Speranza to Oscar Wilde, 3 November 1891, in Clark, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, page 105.
`I would like you home': Speranza to Oscar Wilde, late 1891, in joy Melville, Mother of Oscar (London, 1994), page 235.
`quite unsympathetic': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 27 May 1937, Clark Library.
`Oscar always said': Charles Ricketts to an unnamed correspondent, 1928, in Charles Ricketts, Self-Portrait: Taken From the Letters &Journals of Charles Ricketts, edited by Cecil Lewis (London, 1939), page 403.
`I believe that women appreciate cruelty': Works, page 82.
`Always! That is a dreadful word': Works, page 32.
`Of course you would have': Works, page 80.
`confidence in you': Emily Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, 30 November 1883, Clark Library.
`The one charm of marriage': Works, page 20.
`The only way a woman': Works, page 80.
`bored to death with married life': Letters, page 785.
`if you will give us two rooms': Frank Liebich, `Oscar Wilde', Clark Library.
`There's nothing in the wo
rld': Works, page 451.
`When I have you for my husband': Constance Lloyd to Oscar Wilde, 1883, Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 127.
`the symbolic incarnation': Huysmans, Against Nature, page 66.
`obsessed by the spirit': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 192.
`If the blank book': Vincent O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde (London, 1978), page 32.
`I am writing a play': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 33.
`bed of abominations': Works, pages 588-596.
`Daughter of adultery': Works, page 591.
`I will kiss your mouth: Works, page 590.
`abnormal predominance': Richard Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis (London, 1959), page 75.
`The latest turn': Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, page 82.
`Thou wouldst not suffer me': Works, pages 604-605.
`Her lust must be an abyss': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 193.
`Paris is a city that pleases me greatly': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 170.
`To the young man': Jonathan Fryer, Andre & Oscar: Gide, Wilde and the Gay Art of Living (London, 1997), page 63.
`There were four of us': in Andre Gide, Oscar Wilde (London, 1951), page 18.
`Wilde, Wilde': Nancy Erber, `The French Trials of Oscar Wilde',7ournal ofHistory and Sexuality, volume VI (1996), page 556.
`I love Andre personally very deeply': Letters, page 874.
`the egoist without an ego': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Sherard, 1933, in Brasol, Oscar Wilde, page 257.
`Gide est amoureux d'Oscar Wilde': journal of Jules Renard, 1891, in Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 76.
`Wilde is piously setting about': Andre Gide to Paul Valery, 4 or 11 December 1891, in Fryer, Andre & Oscar, page 33.
`Wilde, I believe': Andre Gide, 1 January 1892, in Fryer, Andre & Oscar, page 34.
Strange green flowers
`One should always be in love': Works, page 81.
`A green carnation?': W. Graham Robertson, Time Was: The Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson (London, 1931), pages 135-136.
`I invented that magnificent flower': Letters, page 617.
`were wearing make-up': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, page 247, translated by Sian Jones.
`unspeakable animal': Belford, Oscar Wilde, pages 188-189.
`Ladies and Gentlemen': Pearson, The Life q -f Oscar Wilde, page 224.
`impudent': Belford, Oscar Wilde, pages 188-189.
`People of birth': Brasol, Oscar Wilde, page 262.
`addressed from the stage': Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde, page 11.
`Quite too-too puffickly precious': Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde, page 11.
`Mr Oscar Wilde and a suite': Sewell, In the Dorian Mode, page 23.
`unmanly': Bartlett, Who Was That Man?, page 50.
`these strange green': Richard Gallienne, English Poems (London, 1892).
`a thin scarlet thread': d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 60.
`The green carnation to which': Bartlett, Who Was That Man?, page 50.
`Do try to be present': Lady Wilde to Oscar Wilde, 8 February 1892, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, page 239.
`hard and fast rules': Works, page 423.
`Morality does not help me': Letters, page 732.
`Constance will be away': Michaelson, `Oscar Wilde', page 700.
`You would feel that he was lying': Works, page 438.
`that the perfect harmony': W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies (London, 1950), page 135.
`Life is a wide stormy sea': Oscar Wilde, A Wife's Tragedy, in R. Shewan, `A Wife's
Tragedy', Theatre Research International, volume VII (1982), pages 99-101.
`I am told there is hardly a husband': Works, page 430.
`Tell me why, sad and sighing': Lord Alfred Douglas, Lyrics (London, 1935), page 58.
`Boys are so wicked': Works, page 427.
`an intellectual face': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 134.
`M was in such an ill-temper': Edward Shelley to John Lane, February 1891, in J.W. Lambert and Michael Ratcliffe, The Bodley Head 1887-1987 (London, 1987), pages 52-53.
`with his coat off: Edward Shelley to John Lane, 4 June 1891, in Thomas Mallon, `A Boy of No Importance', Biography, volume I, number 3 (summer 1978), page 68.
`I should like to have a few minutes': Edward Shelley to John Lane, December 1890, in Lambert and Ratcliffe, The Bodley Head, page 52.
`A Physical Impossibility': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`He seemed to take notice of me': Lambert and Ratcliffe, The Bodley Head, pages 53-54.
`We dined together in a public room': Lambert and Ratcliffe, The Bodley Head, pages 53-54.
`The lighter forms of literature': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, pages 296-297.
`I had met no one': William Rothenstein, Men and Memories: Recollections of William Rothenstein (New York, 1931), page 87.
`Will you come into my bedroom?': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 213.
`stupor': Edward Shelley's statement, witness statements, private collection.
`flattered, inebriated, terrified': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, pages 262-263, translated by Sian Jones.
`placed his hand on the private parts': The Shame of Oscar Wilde: From the Shorthand Reports (Paris, 1906), page 94.
`I was weak of course': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 296.
`a peculiar sort of exaltation': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 239.
I was entrapped': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 296.
`What a triumph was yours last night!': Edward Shelley to Oscar Wilde, 21 February 1892, in The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 297.
`To Edward Shelley': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 385.
`I have longed to see you': Edward Shelley to Oscar Wilde, 27 October 1892, in The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 95.
`I saw Edward Shelley': John Gray to Pierre Lout's, 1 August 1892, in A Friendship q f the Nineties, edited by Alan Walter Campbell (Edinburgh, 1984), page 17.
`intolerable': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 191.
`that viper': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 390.
`I have had a very horrible interview': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 233.
`I am most anxious to see you': Edward Shelley to Oscar Wilde, 27 October 1892, in The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 95.
`I am afraid sometimes': `Oscar Wilde Retried', New York Herald, 23 May 1895, page 9.
`I am determined': Edward Shelley to Oscar Wilde, 25 October 1894, in The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 95.
`Shelley was in the habit': Croft-Cooke, Feasting with Panthers, page 264.
`a foolish young man': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, pages 262-263, translated by Sian Jones.
`I used to be utterly reckless of young lives': Letters, page 905.
Hyacinth and Narcissus
`In this world': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 242.
`a very pathetic letter': Letters, page 795.
`very fair and pretty': Jack Saul, Recollections of a Mary Ann (London, 1881), pages 112-114.
into the hands': Symonds, Sexual Inversion, pages 149-150.
`God forgive the past': Edward Shelley to Oscar Wilde, in Croft-Cooke, Feasting With Panthers, page 263.
`their infamous war against life': Letters, page 759.
`infamous conduct at Oxford': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 57.
`a most pathetic and charming letter': Letters, page 795.
`Oh, he knows everything about us': Penelope Fitzgerald, Edward Burne 5ones: A Biography (London, 1989), page 196.
`When I was deprived of his advice': Letters, page 702.
`When Edwin Levy': Letters, page 725.
`the Fates were weaving': Letters, page 706.
`his soul with honey': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 10 December 1843, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 91.
`I was fascinated by Wilde': Lord Alfred Do
uglas to Frank Harris, 1925, HRC.
`wilful, fascinating, irritating': Letters, page 961.
`young Adonis': Works, page 19.
`the visible incarnation': Works, page 89.
`boyhood': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, 1925, in H. Montgomery Hyde,
`Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas', Essays by Divers Hands, edited by Sir Angus Wilson (Suffolk, 1984) page 146.
`Say that I love him': Letters, page 948.
`I was filled up with drinks': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, 1925, HRC.
`My dearest Bobbie': Letters, page 526.
pollution labiale': Laurence Housman to George Ives, 17 October 1933, HRC.
`That man is a cock sucker': the Marquis of Queensberry to Percy Douglas, in Murray, Bosie, page 74.
`practised penis-sucking': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, page 119, translated by Sian Jones.
`inspiration': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 187.
`Love is a sacrament': George Ives materials, HRC.
`most distasteful observance': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 8 June 1937, Clark Library.
`penis-sucking': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, page 119, translated by Sian Jones.
`sensual, without being debauched': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, pages 121-122, translated by Sian Jones.
`It is hateful to me now to speak': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, 1925, HRC.
`never seen anything like it': Bartlett, Who Was That Man?, pages 136-137.
`did not shrink': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology o f Sex, page 89.
`a vulgar error': Symonds, Sexual Inversion, page 107.
`It is the common belief': Symonds, Sexual Inversion, page 106.
`Anal intercourse (active or passive)': P.W.J. Healy, `Uranisme et Unisexualite: A Late
Victorian View of Homosexuality', New Blackfriars (February 1978), page 59.
`Oh, it was so little that': Douglas, Autobiography, page 75.
`faithfully, loyally, devotedly, unselfishly': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, March 1894, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 167.
`perfect love': Lord Alfred Douglas, unpublished article for Mercure de France.
`all a question for physiology': Works, pages 35-36.
`Sins of the flesh are nothing': Letters, page 714.
`Those who are faithful': Works, page 25.