by Neil McKenna
`My dear Bosie': Letters, page 637.
`in a frightful state': Douglas, Autobiography, page 106.
`Can you do anything': Lord Alfred Douglas to George Ives, ?7 April 1895, Clark Library.
`Poor boy when I think': diary of George Ives, 8 April 1895, HRC.
`A most trying visit': diary of Laura Hope, 5 April 1895, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 227.
Oscar at bay
`I was the worse for drink': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 154.
`a knot of renters': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 3 May 1895, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, pages 103-104.
male strumpets': Reynolds's News.
`A something': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 188.
`Nothing': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 150.
`Surely you are not': Douglas, Autobiography, page 119.
`I think there is no worse crime': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 231.
`Sworn informations have been lodged': New York Times, 6 April 1895.
`sensational development': The Star, 8 April 1895.
`Rosebery seems tome': diary of Sir Edward Hamilton, 8 April 1895, in The Destruction of Lord Rosebery, edited by David Brooks (London, 1986), page 237.
`an orgy of Philistine rancour': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 144.
`Mr Wilde is damned': Echo, 6 April 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 79.
`We begin to breathe': Pall Mall Gazette, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 79.
`We have had enough': Daily Telegraph, 6 April 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 75.
`the obscene imposter': National Observer, 6 April 1895, in Pine, The Thief of Reason, page 13.
`There must be another trial': Michael S. Foldy, The Trials of Oscar Wilde (London, 1997), page 55.
`Public feeling is fiercely hostile': George Wyndham to Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham, 7 April 1895, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 83-84.
`whose goal was to pursue': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, page 267, translated by Sian Jones.
`I look forward eagerly': Aubrey Beardsley to Ada Leverson, April 1895, in Beardsley, Letters, page 82.
`Adrian had a most painful': diary of Laura Hope, 6 April 1895, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 227.
`There was an idea': Blanche Crackanthorpe to Elizabeth Robins, 9 April 1895, in Kerry Powell, `Oscar & Two Women', Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, page 314.
`I have determined to remain': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Sherard, April 1895, in Sherard, Oscar Wilde, pages 126-127.
`is raising money': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 3 May 1895, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, pages 103-104.
`Mr Oscar Wilde has been tried': Lord Alfred Douglas to the Star, 19 April 1895, in Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 158.
`The scene that evening': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 3 May 1895, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 104.
`The surroundings are middle-class': Works, page 386.
`special cell': Leonard Creswell Ingleby, Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences (London, 1912), page 83.
`moments of very low-spiritedness': Ingleby, Oscar Wilde, page 88-89.
`a horrible kind of barred cage': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Sherard, April 1895, in Sherard, Oscar Wilde, pages 125-126.
`brighten up': Ingleby, Oscar Wilde, pages 90-91.
`Nothing but Alfred Douglas's': Letters, page 644.
`A slim thing': Letters, page 641.
`dazed with horror': Letters, page 644.
`was received by': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 160.
`Yes, Oscar at bay': W.E. Henley to Charles Whibley, 13 April 1895, in Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 162-163.
`with an inscrutable countenance': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 168.
`a diabolical conspiracy': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Sherard, April 1895, in Sherard, Oscar Wilde, pages 125-126.
`The government appears': Lord Alfred Douglas, `Oscar Wilde', Clark Library, translated by Christopher Millard.
`a startling degree': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 170. `in tears, poring': Holland, Son of Oscar Wilde, page 61.
`My dear Mrs Robinson': Letters, page 642.
`there is little room': Charles Gill to Hamilton Cuffe, 19 April 1895, PRO.
`We think he fell': Charles Gill to Hamilton Cuffe, 19 April 1895, PRO
`Irresponsible persons': Charles Gill to Hamilton Cuffe, 19 April 1895, PRO.
`in daily and momentary': Lord Alfred Douglas to Henry Labouchere, 31 May 1895, Clark Library.
`letters of warning': The Morning Post, 18 April 1913.
`urgent request': Lord Alfred Douglas to Henry Labouchere, 31 May 1895, Clark Library.
`I am so happy': Letters, page 647.
The love that dares to speak its name
`Misfortunes one can endure': Works, page 429.
`haggard and worn': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 16.
`Many people are asking': The Star, 23 April 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 99.
`looked terribly bored': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 214.
committed the act of sodomy': CG, The Trials of Oscar Wilde from the Shorthand
Reports.
`a great deal of nervous anxiety': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 214.
`Gentleman of the jury': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, pages 266-267.
`Is it not clear that': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, pages 271-272.
`If there is the slightest manifestation': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 272.
`Oscar has been quite superb': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 3 May 1895, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 102.
`all will be over': Letters, page 646.
`1. Do you think': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 312.
`Hoscar stood very upright': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 3 May 1895, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, pages 102-103.
`Ought the prosecution': The Morning, 2 May 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, pages 117-118.
`remove what appears': diary of Sir Edward Hamilton, 21 May 1895, in Sir Edward Hamilton, The Destruction of Lord Rosebery, page 250.
`Cannot you let up': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 224.
`Give me shelter': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 224.
`depressing': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 222-223.
`I am not well today': Letters, page 649.
`Why have you brought me': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 157.
`As for Hosker': W.E. Henley to Charles Whibley, early May 1895, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 271.
`men who did not like boys': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 8 June 1937, Clark Library.
`Every great love': Letters, page 650.
the divine secret of the world': Letters, page 651.
`A dishonoured name': Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, ?May 1895, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 272.
`Pleasure hides from us': Letters, page 651.
`To have altered my life': Letters, page 1019.
monstrous martyrdom': Letters, page 1044.
`to try to get a verdict': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 253.
`My sweet rose': Letters, page 651.
`the soul of a man': Letters, page 651.
`It is the worst case': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, page 464.
`And I? May I say': O'Brien, `Robert Sherard', page 14.
A foul and dark latrine
`The Oscar trial is ended': in John Stokes, In the Nineties (Hemel Hempstead, 1989), page 5.
`sickness or spiritual retreat': Pine, The Thief o f Reason, pages 295-296.
`It was a fiendish nightmare': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 194.
`special': Ingleby, Oscar Wilde, page 83.
`The cell was appalling': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 194.
`The food turned my stomach': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 194.
`The first year of prison': diary of George Ives,
12 March 1898, HRC.
`mental prostration': The Morning, 6 June 1895, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 136.
`given no anxiety': H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath (London,
1963), page 7.
`memory suddenly failed him': New York Herald, 21 May 1895, page 9.
`Rosebery seems better': diary of Sir Edward Hamilton, 28 May 1895, in Hamilton, The Destruction of Lord Rosebery, page 251.
`I had a long talk': R.B. Haldane to his mother, National Library of Scotland.
`the family of Oscar Wilde': Haldane to his mother, National Library of Scotland.
`I have been in private': Haldane to More Adey, 6 December 1895, Clark Library.
`The authorities are looking': Haldane to More Adey, 8 January 1895, Clark Library.
`For the last 10 months': More Adey to Constance Wilde, 30 July 1896, Bodleian Library.
`the following suggestion': More Adey to an unnamed French correspondent, June 1895, Clark Library.
`opportunity to meditate': Ellmann, page 473.
`These tastes are perfectly': Lord Alfred Douglas to Henry Labouchere, 9 June 1895, Clark Library.
`Why on earth': in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 132.
`the poet and dramatist': in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 91-92.
`As soon as this conservative': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lord Percy Douglas, 11 July 1895, in `The Constant Nymph'.
`Capt. Stopford informs me': Sir Matthew Ridley to E. Ruggles-Brise, 30 September 1895, PRO.
`The Few American Friends': William White, `A Bribe for Oscar Wilde', Fales Library, New York.
`an excited flurried condition': Ellmann, page 495.
`it was easy for': Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise: A Memoir o f the Founder o f Borstal compiled by Shane Leslie (London, 1938), pages 135-136.
`He is now quite crushed': W.D. Morrison to R.B. Haldane, 11 September 1895, PRO.
`Male aged 48': Prisons Committee, Report From the Departmental Committee on Prisons
(London, 1895), page 581.
`The practical question': W.D. Morrison to R.B. Haldane, 11 September 1895, PRO.
`not the slightest evidence': E. Gover to E. Ruggles-Brise, 23 September 1895, PRO.
`I have seen Mr Morrison': Sir Matthew Ridley to R.B. Haldane, 7 October 1895, PRO.
`the sure prey': Letters, page 658.
`Each narrow cell': Works, page 897.
`I sat amidst the ruins': Letters, page 715.
`I was very much shocked': Letters, page 665.
`I could hardly stand up': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 196.
`I saw him at the Infirmary': Robert Sherard to More Adey, 18 October 1895, Clark Library.
Is at with Oscar yesterday': Lily Wilde to More Adey, 18 October 1895, Clark Library.
`mind is considerably impaired': Robert Ross to Oscar Browning, 12 November 1895, in ALS King's College, Cambridge.
`Physically he was much worse': Robert Ross to Oscar Browning, 12 November 1895, in ALS King's College, Cambridge.
`His history before imprisonment': report by Drs D Nicholson and Richard Bryan, 29 November 1895, PRO.
`Oscar Wilde will be removed': PRO.
Bitter waters
`Those who are faithful': Works, page 25.
`I have to sue': Constance Wilde to Emily Thursfield, 25 June 1895, Clark Library.
`I have been quite broken-hearted': Constance Wilde to Emily Thursfield, 25 June 1895, Clark Library.
`the bravest and most chivalrous': Letters, page 716. `hands were disfigured': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 199.
`The only hope of salvation': Robert Sherard to Matthew Ridley, 12 September 1895, in O'Brien, `Robert Sherard', page 17.
`would only write once': Hyde, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath, page 24.
`My husband': Hyde, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath, page 28.
`It was indeed awful': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, pages 201-202.
`I do not wish to sever': Constance Wilde to Emily Thursfield, 12 October 1895, Clark Library, in Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde, page 190.
`an apology for': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 204.
`I was greatly taken aback': Letters, page 716.
`let my enemies interpret': Wintermans, Oscar Wilde, pages 20 and 27.
`one of the thousand Charlies': Leonard J. Leggett, `Reginald Turner: The Friend in the Background', Clark Library, in Stanley Weintraub, Reggie: A Portrait of Reginald Turner (New York, 1965), page 98.
`all flowers of the narcissus kind': in Weintraub, Reggie, page 98.
`warning me that police': `The Constant Nymph', page 16.
`Am surprised at not hearing': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 92.
`a balm for bruised hearts': Douglas, Sonnets, page 28.
`But vainly, alas!': Douglas, Lyrics, page 43.
`I have just had a slight': Lord Alfred Douglas to Ada Leverson, 1895, in Speedie, Wonderful Sphinx, pages 96-97.
`I can't make it out': Lord Alfred Douglas to Ada Leverson, 13 September 1895, Clark Library.
`I have had frantic letters': Ada Leverson to More Adey, 19 September 1895, Clark Library.
`Tell him from me': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Sherard, 22 September 1895, University of Reading.
`How can he expect': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, 30 November 1895, Clark Library.
`this tomb for those': Letters, page 658.
`petitioned HS about 3 weeks ago': More Adey's notes on a visit to Oscar Wilde, Bodleian Library.
`I believe it will': Constance Wilde to Lily Wilde, February 1896, Clark Library, in Melville, Mother of Oscar, pages 274-275.
`much shocked': Robert Ross to More Adey in Robert Ross: Friend of Friends, page 9.
`changed beyond recognition': Fitzgerald, Edward Burne Jones, page 266.
`You said that Douglas': Letters, page 654.
`What shall I say?': Lord Alfred Douglas, `To Oscar Wilde', Hyde Archive, Magdalen College, Oxford.
`I am not in prison': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, 30 November 1895, in Hyde, Lord Alf red Douglas, page 95.
`Even if I get out': Letters, page 655.
`I do not believe': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, September 1896, in Hyde, Lord
Alfred Douglas, page 102.
`Nothing in the world': Richard Ellmann and John Espey, Oscar Wilde: Two Approaches (Los Angeles, 1977), pages 15-16.
From the depths
`A patriot put in prison': Letters, page 1019.
`haughty and impatient': Robert Ross to More Adey, 1896, in Robert Ross: Friend of Friends, pages 42-43.
`The Governor loves to punish': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 193.
`The Governor was strong upon': Works, page 887.
`it would be a great loss': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 192.
`The Home Secretary says': diary of George Ives, 24 May 1896, HRC.
`In his cell': Sherard, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 351.
`Dear Bosie': Letters, pages 683-684.
`some good': found as `do him good': Letters, page 782.
`You must read this letter': Letters, page 685.
`into the imperfect world': Letters, page 726.
`Tired of being': Letters, page 730.
`Well, if you are my literary executor': Letters, page 780.
`Of the many, many things': Letters, pages 782-783.
`Incomplete, imperfect': Letters, page 780.
`Sins of the flesh': Letters, page 714.
`I grew careless': Letters, page 730.
`I used to be utterly': Letters, page 905.
`Reason does not help me': Letters, page 732.
`I know not whether': Works, page 896.
`There is no prison': Letters, page 779.
`when prisoners of all kinds': Report from the Departmental Committee on Prisons, 1895, page 20.
`There are many nice fellows': Letters, page 830.
`the one I liked best': Letters, page 976.
`I had some interesting things': Robert Sherard to Carlos Blacker, 8 June
1897, in Anjali Gallup-Diaz, `The Author, His Friends, and the Ballad of Reading Gaol', Reading Wilde: Querying Spaces (New York, 1995), page 83.
`the prisoners in Reading': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 25 August 1938, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath, page 212.
`You must get me his address': Letters, page 798.
`Please be careful': Letters, page 861.
`I had better say candidly': Letters, page 887.
`when all the roses': Letters, page 778.
`As I have mentioned': More Adey to Constance Wilde, 30 July 1896, Bodleian Library.
`All this about': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, 8 February 1897, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 103.
`I happened to know': Robert Ross, `Statement of Evidence in His Case Against Douglas', Clark Library.
`At the present moment': Letters, page 704.
`To talk of my defending': Letters, page 787.
`Deed of Separation': Sotheby's, English Literature and History, London, 22-23 July 1985.
`I do hope you will': H. Martin Holman to More Adey, 10 May 1897, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde: The Aftermath, pages 134-135.
`I am to be deprived': Letters, page 808.
Comfort and despair
`No - what consoles one nowadays': Works, page 460.
`mentally upset': Letters, page 862.
`many, English, French': Letters, page 803.
`so utterly distressing': Letters, page 803.
`He looked very well': The Morning, 19 May 1897, in The Oscar Wilde File, page 142.
`We have received several': More Adey to Sir Edward Clayton, 16 May 1893, Clark Library.
`of Burne Jones and Rossetti': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 342.
`The gods had given me': Letters, page 729.
`quite as tragic': Constance Wilde to Otho Holland Lloyd, 26 March 1892, in Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde, page 207.
`I did not believe': Robert Ross to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, in Borland, Wilde's Devoted Friend, pages 155-156.
`the impulse of a moment': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 343.
`a lovely brown boy': `The Tomb of Keats', in Ellmann, The Artist-as-Critic, page 5.
`a complex multiform creature': Works, page 107.