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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.

 

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