by Neil McKenna
`I have now in my possession': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 11 March 1895, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 59.
`this hideous monster': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 4 March 1895, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 58.
Passionate fauns
`You do not feel the beauty': John Addington Symonds to Charles Kains Jackson, 24 April 1892, in Symonds, Letters, pages 682-683.
,the year of the Faith 2233': diary of George Ives, 1 January 1895, HRC.
`After going among that set': diary of George Ives, 1 January 1895, HRC.
`roaring successes': Henry James to William James, Beckson, The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia, page 170.
,in a moment of weakness': statement of Edward Shelley, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I saw a knife': Speedie, Wonderful Sphinx, page 75.
`a long voyage': Letters, page 594.
`Yes. I fly to Algiers': Letters, page 629.
`little white walled-in house': Works, page 106.
`There is a great deal of beauty here': Letters, page 629.
`full of villages': Letters, page 629.
`I have the feeling': Andre Gide to his mother, January 1895, in Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 116.
`ashamed': Jonathan Dollimore, `Different Desires: Subjectivity and Transgression in Wilde and Gide', Textual Practice, volume I, number 1 (spring 1987), page 48.
`that terrible man': Andre Gide to his mother, 28 January 1895, in Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 116.
`less softness in his look': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 27. `adore': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 27.
`vile procurer': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 74.
,as beautiful as bronze statues': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 74.
`All these guides are idiots': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 74.
`On the whole': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 75.
`I have a friend': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 76.
,in a hissing, withering, savage': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 77.
`overweening': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 77.
`laid great stress': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 79.
`twelve or thirteen': Andre Gide to his mother, 2 February 1895, in Fryer, Andre & Oscar, page 129.
`elope': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 79.
`But to run away': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 79.
`Lulled by the strange torpor': Gide, Oscar Wilde, pages 82-83.
`The song of the flute': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 83.
`Venez': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 83.
`Dear, would you like': Gide, Oscar Wilde, pages 83-84.
`a dreadful effort of courage': Gide, Oscar Wilde, pages 83-84.
`two enormous policemen': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 86.
`Oh no, dear, on the contrary': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 86.
`A young Arab': Laurence Housman to George Ives, 17 October 1933, HRC.
`transports of delight': in Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 119.
`Since then, whenever': in Sheridan, Andre Gide, pages 118-119.
`blackened': Andre Gide to his mother, 30 January 1895, in Fryer, Andre & Oscar, pages 114-115.
`ambiguous distinction': Andre Gide to his mother, 30 January 1895, in Fryer, Andre & Oscar, pages 114-115.
`with disgusting obstinacy': Andre Gide to his mother, January 1895, in Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 120.
`who seeks shame': Andre Gide to his mother, 30 January 1895, in Fryer, Andre & Oscar, pages 114-115.
`a young prince': Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 120.
`I have been trying to read': Lord Alfred Douglas to Andre Gide, 1929, in Murray, Bosie, pages 288-289.
`a mass of lies': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Sherard, 25 May 1933, in Brasol, Oscar Wilde, page 256.
`My dear Bobbie': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robbie Ross, 11 February 1895, private collection.
`Finally we made it up': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robbie Ross, 11 February 1895, private collection.
`I am far too occupied': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robbie Ross, 11 February 1895, private collection.
`Boys, yes boys': Fryer, Andre & Oscar, page 130.
`I am really having': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robbie Ross, 11 February 1895, private collection.
Hideous words
`If your sins find you out': Day, Oscar Wilde, page 253.
`monstrous doses': Stephen Yeldham, The Homeopathic Treatment of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea (London, 1860).
`disgusting hodgepodge': Yeldham, The Homeopathic Treatment of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea.
`Let a man take a turn': Yeldham, The Homeopathic Treatment of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea.
`You were kind enough': Letters, page 630.
`What I wanted however': Algy Bourke to Lady Queensberry, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 41.
`this hideous scandal of Oscar Wilde': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 4 March 1895, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 58.
`dark, sinister, winter's night': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 267.
`Wilde fanatics': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 267.
`with elaborate dandyism': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 270.
`the very breath of success': Interviews and Recollections, volume If, page 267.
`the lily of the valley': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 267.
`a single green carnation': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 270.
`beaming with euphoria': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 270.
`What a contrast': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 270.
`I had all Scotland Yard': Letters, page 632.
`I don't think I should': in Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 255.
`Yes: the Scarlet Marquis': Letters, page 632.
`He prowled about': Letters, page 632.
`Upon investigating the case': C.O. Humphreys to Oscar Wilde, 28 February 1895, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, pages 205-206.
`Such a persistent persecutor': C.O. Humphreys to Oscar Wilde, 28 February 1895, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 206.
`I may say that as Percy': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 18 February 1895, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 55.
`You must all be mad': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 4 March 1895, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 58.
`I am greatly touched': Letters, page 633.
`You thought simply': Letters, page 709.
`A.D. brought to my hotel': Letters, pages 795-796.
`bombard': Letters, page 796.
`Lord Queensberry desired me': Examination of Oscar Wilde, 9 April 1895, CRIM 1 41/6, PRO.
`Give this card to Oscar Wilde': Evidence of Sydney Wright - Hall Porter, CRIM 1 41/6, PRO.
`For Oscar Wilde ponce and somdomite': Evidence of Sydney Wright - Hall Porter, CRIM 1 41/6, PRO.
`the action of Lord Queensberry': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 9-10.
`loathsome letter': Letters, page 796.
`Dearest Bobbie': Letters, page 634.
`Dear Constance': Letters, page 633.
`My only chance of resisting': Letters, page 787.
`forgiveness with a condition': Napoleon Argles, How to Obtain a Divorce (London, 1895).
`I now learn that no condonation': Letters, page 784.
`I live in a world of puppets': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 278.
`most unusual destiny': Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs, page 57.
`What curious things': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 279.
`Blindly I staggered': Letters, page 690.
`My judgement forsook me': Letters, page 690.
`What is loathsome to me': Letters, page 759.
`You said that your own family': Letters, pages 703-704.
`If you are innocent': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 197.
`booby-trap': Roberts, The M
ad Bad Line, page 198.
Raking Piccadilly
`One should never make': Small, Oscar Wilde Revalued, page 129.
`Dear Mr Dunn': Lord Alfred Douglas to James Nicol Dunn, 2 March 1895, Clark Library.
`Are you the Marquis of Queensberry?': Statement of Det. Insp. Thomas Creet, CRIM 1 41/6, PRO.
`publishing a certain defamatory libel': `Oscar Wilde and the Marquis', New York Herald, 3 March 1895, page 9.
`fifty years of age', New York Herald, 3 March 1895, page 9.
`most cruel persecution': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 1.
`For Oscar Wilde ponce and somdomite': Evidence of Sydney Wright - Hall Porter, CRIM 1 41/6, PRO.
`posing as somdomite': Evidence of Sydney Wright - Hall Porter, CRIM 141/6, PRO.
`to pose as a thing': the Marquis of Queensberry to Lord Alfred Douglas, 1 April 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 97.
`I venture to say': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 3.
`temporarily exalted': Robbie Ross, unpublished preface to `After Reading', no date, Clark Library.
`a somewhat nervous': New York Herald, 3 March 1895, page 9.
`Poor, poor Oscar!': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 3 March 1895, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 100.
`used to walk about with him': Stokes, Oscar Wilde, page 45.
`Hullo, Ned Carson': Edward Marjoribanks, The Life q f Lord Carson (London, 1932), volume I, page 171.
`deep moral indignation': Marjoribanks, The Life of Lord Carson, page 171.
`No doubt he will perform': Sir Travers Humphreys, `Foreword' to Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 14.
`concrete proofs': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`go and speak to Cook': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 26 February 1895, in Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 56.
constituted himself: Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 89.
`With Brookfield alas!': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, pages 105-106.
`Nature was in this matter': Letters, page 670.
`a fine old Irish Commissionaire': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, pages 288-289.
`hatbox full of papers': statement of Sophia Gray, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Obliged to see Tree': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 357.
`My dear Alfred': Charles Mason to Alfred Taylor, 30 November 1891, in Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 361.
`terrified into giving evidence': diary of George Ives, 2 May 1895, HRC.
`to forewarn Mr Wilde': Caspar Wintermans, Oscar Wilde: A Plea and a Reminiscence (Woubrugge, 2002), page 20.
`We are very worried just now': Constance Wilde to Marie Belloc Lowndes, March 1895, in Ellmann, page 441.
`in matters of grave importance': Works, page 406.
`very much agitated': Douglas, Autobiography, page 59.
`Have no fear': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 217.
Vexed and persecuted lovers
`A short primer, When to Lie and How': Works, page 1090.
`God knows I never sought': Rhodes James, Rosebery, page 366.
`The whole thing came': John Wodehouse, 19 February 1895, in The Journal o f.ohn Wodehouse, First Earl of Kimberley for 1862-1902 edited by Angus Hawkins and John Powell (London, 1997), pages 430-431.
`George Murray says': journal of Lewis Harcourt, 20 February 1895, Bodleian Library.
`insomnia': `Lord Rosebery's Health', New York Herald, 10 March 1895, page 9.
`I cannot forget 1895': Rhodes James, Rosebeiy, page 373.
`for the first time in his life': Rhodes James, Rosebery, page 373.
`long-continued derangement': Roberts, The Mad had Line, page 248.
`the most obstinate and puzzling case': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 248.
`thinks Rosebery's illness': journal of Lewis Harcourt, 16 February 1895, Bodleian Library.
`fatal termination': Rhodes James, Rosebery, page 370.
`with reference to one': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 14.
`the white feather': the Marquis of Queensberry to Albert Montgomery, 6 July 1894, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 199.
`a buzz of conversation': Evening News, 9 March 1895, in It is 1895', The Oscar Wilde File, page 40.
`taking wise counsel': Letters, page 690.
`I saw Humphreys today': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lord Percy Douglas, 11 March 1895, in `The Constant Nymph', Maggs Brothers Limited, no date.
`I can only accept this brief': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 203.
`absolutely false and groundless': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 73-74.
`is quite another thing': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 188.
`a very great favour': Letters, page 635.
`We have been to the Sibyl Robinson': Letters, page 636.
`people of importance': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 115.
`For God's sake man': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 338.
a haughty indignant silence': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 338.
`Such advice': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 117.
`sticking place': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, 1925, in Harris and Douglas, The Life and Confessions o f Oscar Wilde, page 38.
`a little tired': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 121-122.
`vexed and persecuted lovers': George Ives materials, HRC.
`I told him it was': Cheiro, Cheiro's Memoirs, page 58.
`a knock-down blow': Reginald Turner to G.J. Renier, 22 March 1933, Clark Library.
`bravely, wondrously bravely': Reginald Turner to G.J. Renier, 22 March 1933, Clark Library.
Fighting with panthers
`rarely pure': Works, pages 361-362.
`All trials': Letters, page 777.
`that tiger life': Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 84.
`fight with panthers': Letters, page 635.
`a gayer tie': Sachaverell Sitwell to H. Montgomery Hyde, 25 July 1948, HRC.
`commonplace-looking': The Star, 3 April 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 43.
`a nonconformist parson': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 120.
`again and again': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 29.
`the very grave responsibility': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 28.
`a sort of prose sonnet': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 34.
`epigrammatic statements': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 40-4 1.
`upon the bookstalls': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 40-41.
`ponderous and fleshy': The Oscar Wilde File, page 48.
`You stated': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 40-41.
`Each man sees his own sin': Mason, Art and Morality, page 81.
`you left it open': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 78-79.
`I quite admit that I adored you': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 90-91.
`undying love': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 107.
`determined to face him': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 121-124.
`an intellectual treat': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 119-120.
`My Lord': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 138.
`a young lad named Conway?': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 60.
`You dressed him up': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 149.
So very ugly
`betray myself with a kiss': Letters, page 615.
`Pray excuse us from dinner tonight': Letters, page 636.
`anything and everything': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 137-138.
`Nemesis has caught me in her net': Letters, page 921.
`not so fresh or so bright': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 70.
`How many young men': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 163.
`How old was Parker?': Holl
and, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 164-165.
`What I would like to ask you': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 174-175.
`even a young boy': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 129-130.
`familiar terms with Grainger?': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 207-209.
`anything so horrible': Elizabeth Robins to Blanche Crackanthorpe, ?9 April 1895, in
Elizabeth Robins, `Oscar Wilde: An Appreciation', page 111.
`premeditatedly': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 149.
`You will hear from these witnesses': The Trials of Oscar Wilde, page 168.
`I said that': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 221.
`Lord Queensberry': The Trials q f Oscar Wilde, page 178.
`a more powerful speech': R. Henn Collins to Edward Carson, 5 April 1895, in Marjoribanks, The Life of Lord Carson, page 229.
`I have ruined': Pine, Oscar Wilde, page 105.
Kill the bugger!
`If one tells the truth: Works, page 1244.
`made for exceptions': Letters, page 732.
`Once I had put into motion': Letters, page 758.
`It would have been impossible': Letters, page 637.
`was an inhuman brute': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, 1925, in Harris and Douglas, The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, page 29-30.
`At the very worst': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, in Harris and Douglas, The
Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, pages 29-30.
`Dear Constance': Letters, page 637.
`What's the use': Douglas, Autobiography, page 104.
`Poor Oscar! Poor Oscar!': Pearson, The Life -of Oscar Wilde, page 288.
`The train has gone': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 140.
`If the country allows you': New York Times, 6 April 1895.
`I think he ought not': New York Herald, 6 April 1895, page 9.
`I have done my duty': New York Herald, 6 April 1895, page 9.
`Dear Sir': Charles Russell to Hon. Hamilton Cuffe, 5 April 1895, PRO.
`very grey in the face': in Ellmann, page 456.
`certain to be condemned': George Wyndham to Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, 7 April 1895, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 83-84.
`Is Oscar Wilde staying here?': Illustrated Police Budget, 13 April 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 84,