by Neil McKenna
Gay, gilt and gracious
`Be careful to choose': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 93.
`From Oscar to the Gilt-mailed boy': displayed in Wilde and the Nineties: An Essay and an Exhibition edited by Charles Ryskamp (New Jersey, 1966).
`the gilt and graceful boy': Letters, page 599.
`the gay, gilt and gracious lad': Letters, page 588.
`slim gilt soul': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 245.
`gilt silk hair': Letters, page 589.
`a miracle of impudence': Edward Pigott to Spencer Ponsonby, in Regenia Gagnier, Idylls o f the Marketplace (Stanford, 1986), pages 170-171.
'I shall leave England': interview with Wilde in Pall Mall Budget, in Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 186.
`And wilt thou, Oscar, from us flee': Spectator, 9 July 1892, in Beckson, The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia, page 325.
`There is not enough fire': Pearson, The Life o f Oscar Wilde, page 229.
`I do not know exactly which course': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, early July 1892, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 23.
`violent and invincible': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 61.
`Oscar is at Homburg under a regime': Letters, page 530.
`Oscar had a pony cart': Lord Alfred Douglas to A.J.A. Symons, 14 March 1939, Clark Library.
I am so sorry about Lord Alfred Douglas': private collection.
`an underpaid clerk in a small provincial bank': Works, page 490.
`a great fancy': Works, page 470.
`It is because I like you so much': Works, page 475.
`He is certainly not natural': Ellmann, page 380.
`Ah, every day dear Herbert': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 237.
`How you delight in your disciples!': Alan Sinfield, The Wilde Century (London, 1994), page 73.
`the queerest mixture': Lytton Strachey to Duncan Grant, 1907, in Ellmann, page 378.
`It is perfectly monstrous': Works, page 469.
`Nothing is serious except passion': Works, page 471.
`There is no secret of life': Works, page 497.
`frequently came to my mother's house': Douglas, Autobiography, page 59.
`endless little notes': Letters, page 763.
`two long interviews': Letters, page 763.
`She told me of your chief faults': Letters page 687.
`I asked her why': Letters, page 763.
`The first time': Letters, page 763.
one of my children': Letters, page 694.
`I have in my blood': Brian Roberts, The Mad Bad Line (London), page 193. `Those incessant scenes': Letters, page 689.
`loyal, kind and forgiving': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 6 January 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 93.
`eccentricities and peculiar views': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 6 January 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 93.
`acted the part': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 93.
`the murderer of your soul': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 93.
`People's mothers bore me to death': Works, page 487.
`looked unhappy': the Marquess of Queensberry's statement, witness statements, private collection.
`part-read': the Marquess of Queensberry's statement, witness statements, private collection.
`a desirable companion': witness statements, private collection.
`All through my childhood': Douglas, Autobiography, page 16.
`My father suddenly': Douglas, Autobiography, page 93.
`some strained feelings': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 30.
Prophets and priests
`How can you have the flower': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 270.
`the only one that ever': Douglas, Without Apology, page 165.
`rapt I gaze upon': d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 51.
`His lips are sweet and red': Douglas, Lyrics, page 60.
`A.R.B. - I like your story': d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 53.
unholy decadent academy': Lord Alfred Douglas, Halcyon Days: Contributions to the
Spirit Lamp, selected and introduced by Caspar Wintermans (New Hampshire, 1995).
`I never got the Spirit Lamp': Letters, pages 545-546.
`all who are interested': Gagnier, Idylls of the Marketplace, page 147.
`monstrous laws': Works, page 29.
`the new Individualism': Works, page 1197.
`new culture': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Karns Jackson, 10 September 1893, HRC.
`Perhaps nobody knows': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Karns Jackson, 10 September 1893, HRC.
`dived': diary of George Ives, 21 November 1899, HRC.
`Our meeting was quite droll': diary of George Ives, 30 June 1892, HRC.
`having obtained permission': diary of George Ives, 14 October 1893, HRC.
`establish a Pagan Monastery': diary of George Ives, 26 October, 1892, HRC.
`moving very rapidly': diary of George Ives, 14 October 1893, HRC.
`time has been so full': diary of George Ives, 26 October 1893, HRC.
all creativity laying plans': Stokes, Oscar Wilde, page 72.
`A Religion, A Theory of Life': Jeffrey Weeks, Coming Out (London, 1990), page 123.
`The vow that shall make you': George Ives materials, HRC.
`Thou knowest the two': Weeks, Coming Out, page 123.
`is forbidden On Duty': diary of George Ives, 26 February 1894, HRC.
`Oscar Wilde's influence': diary of George Ives, 26 October 1893, HRC.
`Love is a sacrament': George Ives materials, HRC.
`He was very beautiful': diary of George Ives, 14 October 1893, HRC.
`Love is the only': diary of George Ives, 15 March 1894, HRC.
`Oscar, you were right': diary of George Ives, 5 December 1899, HRC.
`our dear brother of the Faith': diary of George Ives, 12 January 1894, HRC.
`cataract-blinded': John Addington Symonds to Edward Carpenter, 21 January 1893,
in Weeks, Coming Out, page 41.
`The blending of Social Strata': John Addington Symonds to Edward Carpenter, 21 January 1893, in Weeks, Coming Out, page 41.
`the high towering love': Symonds, Sexual Inversion, page 183.
`I conceive of a millennium of earth': Edward Carpenter, Towards Democracy (Manchester, 1896).
`Among the working masses': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology o / `Sex, page 13.
`patent to all observers': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, page 15.
`He had made advances': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, page 15.
`What is called the vice': Philippe Jullian, Oscar Wilde (London, 1979), page 179.
`Manliness has become': Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 73.
`all body and no soul': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`a pledge of comradeship': Symonds, Memoirs, pages 277-278.
`I deliberately': Letters, page 730.
`like feasting with panthers': Letters, page 758.
`imperfect world of coarse': Letters, page 726.
`the brightest of gilded snakes': Letters, page 759.
`the mire': Letters, page 692.
`sprawling in the mire': Gil Blas, 22 November 1897, in Schmidgall, The Stranger Wilde, page 268.
`not Destiny, merely': Letters, page 701.
`Nemesis has caught': Letters, page 921.
`cure the soul': Works, page 134.
`Only in the mire': Letters, page 921.
For love or money
`What a fuss people make': Works, page 35.
`Are there beautiful people': Letters, pages 541-542.
`You are my ideal Gerald': Letters, page 540.
`Tired of the passion': Douglas, Sonnets, page 19.
`undying love': Letters, page 544.
`My Own Boy': Letters, page 544.
`Was it not repugnant': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 230.
`a marriage': Pierre Lout's to Andre Gide, in Gide, Oscar Wilde, page
72.
`I hope marriage': Letters, page 603.
`Charlie, dear': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 179.
`a very girlish boy': statement of Fred Atkins, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`What was the attraction': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 355.
`very civil and friendly': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 188-189.
`I know a man': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 188-189.
`It was arranged': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 211.
`Our little lad': Croft-Cooke, Feasting with Panthers, page 270.
`in Oscar's room': witness statement, private collection.
`It was quite a surprise': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 189.
`I have a great fancy': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 248.
`penetrated the dim-lit': Evening News, 5 April 1895, in Christopher Craft, `Alias Bunbury: Desire and Termination in The Importance ofBeing Earnest', in Representations, volume XXI (summer 1990), page 30.
a cigarette is the perfect type': Works, page 67.
`Instead of simply offering': Pierre Lout's to Andre Gide, June 1892, in Hull McCormack, Sohn Gray, page 91.
`pale-eyed and pimply-faced': The Star, 11 April 1895.
`Mr Wilde kissed the waiter': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 184-185.
`not to go see those woman': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 185.
`Shall I come into bed': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 185-186.
`perform certain operations': statement of Fred Atkins, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Are you Alfred Wood?': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 211.
`one of the best to be got': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, pages 201-202.
`put his hand inside': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 29.
"`kissing &c" had taken place': witness statements, private collection.
`It was a long time': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 29.
`£3 or £4 at a time': statement of Alfred Wood, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`did not fulfil his promises': statement of Alfred Wood, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`several times': statement of Alfred Wood, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Familiarities': statement of Alfred Wood, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Bosie's whims have led me': Campbell Dodgson to Lionel Johnson, 8 February 1893, British Library.
`that we were going to Torquay': Campbell Dodgson to Lionel Johnson, 8 February 1893, British Library.
`If you knew': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 364.
`Babbacombe Cliff has become': Letters, page 547.
succeeded in combining': Letters, page 555.
`Babbacombe School': Letters, page 556.
`Our life is lazy and luxurious': Campbell Dodgson to Lionel Johnson, 8 February 1893, British Library.
`When you left': Letters, page 691.
with a heart of lead': Letters, page 560.
Feasting with panthers
`Moderation is a fatal thing': Pearson, Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 171.
begged': Letters, page 691.
`food and drink': Oscar Wilde's Bankruptcy Proceedings, High Court of Bankruptcy B9/428, PRO.
`I really am not going to be imprisoned': Works, page 380.
`How grossly materialistic!': Works, page 380.
`the clear turtle soup': Letters, pages 774-775.
`Suppose I like a food that is poison': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 292.
`the honey of thy sugar lips': Lord Alfred Douglas, `A Port on the Aegean', in Murray, Bosie, page 50.
`I am sorry to say that Oscar': Max Beerbohm to Reggie Turner, 12 April 1893, in Max Beerhohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 35.
`It was like feasting with panthers': Letters, page 758.
`I can't understand sensible men': CG [Charles Grolleau], The Trial of'Oscar Wilde from the Shorthand Reports (Paris, 1906).
`Now you, you could get money': CG, The Trial of Oscar Wilde.
`Darling': CG, The Trial of Oscar Wilde.
`paid all his attention to my brother': in Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 177.
`My brother took it into his': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 177.
`He showed curiosity': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, pages 203-204.
`This is the boy for me!': statement of Charles Parker, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Your brother is lucky!': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 177-8.
`I was there about two hours': Anonymous, `The Life of Oscar Wilde as Prosecutor and Prisoner', 1895.
`toss him off: CG, The Trial of Oscar Wilde.
`He suggested two or three times': CG, The Trial of Oscar Wilde.
`I don't suppose boys': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 172.
'You say positively': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 175.
`certain operations with his mouth': statement of Charles Parker, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`a common boy': statement of Jane Margaret Cotta, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`close-cropped hair': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 194.
were stained in a peculiar way': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 220.
`soil': statement of Jane Margaret Cotta, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`How disgusting!': statement of Jane Margaret Cotta 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`One of the housemaids came to me': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, pages 210-211.
`I do not wish to enlarge': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 261.
the sodomistic act': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, pages 39-40.
`You deny that the bed-linen': CG, The Trial ofOscar Wilde.
`On going to the room': statement of Antonio Migge, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I know nothing about the Savoy': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 267.
`come and smoke a cigarette': Craft, `Alias Bunbury', page 30.
`not to be a beast': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 64.
`Hello! Here's my Herbert': statement of Herbert Tankard, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`is always kissing me': statement of Herbert Tankard, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`ocular and most horrible proofs': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`What the paradox was to me': Letters, page 730.
,the sins of another': Letters, page 714.
`carefully coached': Letters, page 714.
`It was not me they spoke about': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 166.
`He wanted to': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 166.
`giving him certain information': Douglas, Autobiography, page 111.
`was not in prison': Letters, page 784.
`nothing irritated him more': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 347.
`a stinking scandal': the Marquis of Queensberry to Alfred Montgomery, 6 July 1894, in St John Irvine, Oscar Wilde: A Present Time Appraisal (London, 1951), pages 251-252.
`You were both kicked out': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 193.
`Isn't that Mr. Oscar Wilde?': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 97.
`live his own life to the utmost': Douglas, Autobiography, page 76.
The madness of kisses
`The criminal classes': Works, page 1243.
`Ah! You don't know?': diary of Edmond de Goncourt, 30 April 1893, in Erber, `The French Trials of Oscar Wilde', page 561.
`I now hear on good authority': the Marquess of Queensberry to Lord Alfred Douglas, 1 April 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 97.
`This one's quite hot enough': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 393.
`stolen': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 34.
`to get away from': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 202.
`I suppose you think': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 34.
`I don't consider these letters': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 35.
`I'm
very much afraid': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 35.
`infernal nuisance': Vyvyan Holland, Son of Oscar Wilde (London, 1954), page 192.
`I am making some slight changes': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 11.
`royalties and bigwigs': Letters, page 560.
`The first night': Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reginald Turner, page 37.
`I pointed this case out': Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs: The Reminiscences of a Society Palmist (London, 1912), page 57.
`Kindly give this letter': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 57.
`I told him that I was rehearsing': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 57.
`I was told by my servant': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, pages 35-36. `empty with fear': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 94.
`notorious boy scoundrel': diary of George Ives, 4 June 1903, HRC.
`his strong love of nature study': diary of George Ives, 23 December 1893, HRC.
`I suppose this means': diary of George Ives, 23 December 1893, HRC.
`Vague whispers': New York Herald, 7 April 1895, page 2.
`evil rumours': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 113.
`vulgar appearance': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 90.
`very unpleasant stories': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 287.
`a dangerous situation': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, pages 287-288.
`Poor Oscar!': Max Beerbohm to Robert Ross, 1893, in Ellmann, page 394.
`Nothing is serious except passion': Works, page 471.
`The real enemy of modern life': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 155.
`The wildest profligate': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 155.
`the most learned erotomaniac': Letters, page 924.
`The work is, undoubtedly': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 10.
`He was usually accompanied by': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 9.
`A friend of mine': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 9.
`It was evident to me': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 10.
`I can easily see why': Wilde and Others, Teleny, pages 9-10.
`always struggled against': Wilde and Others, Teleny, pages 51-52.
`musical': d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 53.
`Far from being ashamed': Wilde and Others, Teleny, pages 129-130.
`Then, Heaven': Wilde and Others, Teleny, page 188.
`About the falling out with Oscar': John Gray to Pierre Lout's, 16 March 1893, in Hull McCormack, John Gray, page 105.