by Neil McKenna
`Infamous St Oscar of Oxford': Letters, page 1041.
`It was a magnificent': Letters, page 842.
`He enjoyed the trees': Letters, page 842.
`full of penitence': in Ellmann, page 535.
`calculated to exasperate': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 432.
`Reading Prison had already': Letters, page 844.
`some sweet biscuits': Letters, page 847.
`I pretended not to see': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 352.
`I breakfast tomorrow': Letters, page 869.
`dragged': Lord Alfred Douglas to A.J.A. Symons, 3 June 1937, Clark Library.
`dear sweet Robbie': Letters, page 858.
`terrible position of isolation': Letters, page 858.
`I adore this place': Letters, page 869.
`I went into the water': Letters, page 866.
`at least I know': Letters, page 877.
`English hypocrisy': Ernest Dowson to Arthur Moore, June 1896, in Dowson, Letters, page 369.
`Cher Monsieur Le Poete': Letters, page 883.
`The other day I met Oscar': Ernest Dowson to Conal O'Riordan, 10 June 1897, in Dowson, Letters, pages 384-385.
`There is a fatality': Letters, page 901.
`wonderful and charming': Letters, page 907.
Your friend, and mine': Letters, page 908.
`a more wholesome taste': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, pages 335-336.
`the architect of the moon': Letters, page 1075.
`a huge and fat person': David Sox, Bachelors ofArt: Edirard Perry Warren and The Leaves House Brotherhood (London, 1991), pages 139-140.
`first hyacinth since Douglas': Sox, Bachelors ofArt, page 141.
`that Aubrey Beardsley': Sox, Bachelors ofArt, pages 140-141.
`Two loves have I': Sox, Bachelors ofArt, page 141.
`revolting': Letters, page 858.
`terrified about Bosie': Letters, page 865.
`My dear Boy': Letters, page 872.
`dear Reggie Cholmondeley': Letters, page 874.
`Don't think I don't love you': Letters, page 880.
`I must give up': Letters, page 885.
`dear honey-sweet boy': Letters, page 898.
`At present it is impossible': Letters, page 901.
`long indictment': Letters, page 908.
`a long letter': Letters, page 909.
`He has really left me': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, 30 June 1897, in CroftCooke, Bosie, page 156.
`I don't even know': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lord Percy Douglas, in `The Constant Nymph'.
`The meeting was a great success': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 110.
`Yes I saw Bosie': Letters, page 934.
`own Darling boy': Letters, page 932.
Two outcast men
`Friendship is far more': Works, page 1242.
`I cannot stay': Letters, page 935.
`returning to his vomit': Carlos Blacker to Otho Holland Lloyd, 21 December 1900, in Maguire, `Oscar Wilde and the Dreyfus Affair', Victorian Studies, volume XLI, number 1.
`You are really wrong': Letters, page 936.
`a hotel of absurd prices': Letters, page 949.
`freedom from morals': Letters, page 1112.
`My going back to Bosie': Letters, page 942.
`But I cannot help it': Letters, page 947.
`I love him, and have': Letters, page 948.
`We have a lovely villa': Letters, page 950.
very beautiful': II Pungolo parlamentare, 9-10 October 1897, in Masolino d'Amico,
`Oscar Wilde in Naples', Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, page 78.
`potent witch': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 158-159.
`I intend to winter here': Letters, page 947.
`The museum is full': Letters, page 958.
`We are together': Letters, page 952.
`He is usually': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, pages 331-332.
`My definition of a straightforward': Robert Ross to Ada Leverson, in Ellmann and Epsey, Oscar Wilde: Two Approaches, page 42.
`The poem suffers': Letters, page 956.
`A prison wall was round us born': Works, page 887.
`we go to Capri': Letters, page 962.
alcoholic habits': Robert Ross, `Statement of Evidence in His Case Against Douglas', Clark Library.
`in your own mysterious style': Lord Alfred Douglas to George Ives, 22 October 1897, Clark Library.
`It is very curious': Letters, page 955.
`very witty and talkative': Letters, page 976.
`mal vu': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 115-116.
`Very secret': E. Neville-Rolfe to Lord Rosebery, 30 December 1897, in `A Note on Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas and Lord Rosebery', in English Language Notes, volume XXIII, number 1 (1985), page 43.
`Question - has he seen': Constance Wilde to Carlos Blacker, 26 September 1897, in J. Robert Maguire, `An Oscar Wilde Autograph Envelope at Auction', Antiquarian Book Monthly (October 2000), page 31.
`I have today written': Letters, page 955.
`I forbid you to see': Letters, page 994.
`How can she really imagine': Letters, page 955.
`Robbie has written me': Letters, page 951.
`As you remade my life': Letters, page 950.
`When you wish to talk': Letters, page 963.
`wretched £3 a week': Letters, page 955.
`a public scandal': Oscar Wilde to More Adey, 20 November 1897, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 115-116.
`Women are so petty': Letters, page 955.
`After all, no charge': Letters, page 979.
`If I were living': Letters, page 979.
`I said at once that your wife': Letters, page 989.
`For More and Robbie': Letters, page 990.
`Do you think that if: Letters, page 991.
`Do, if possible, try': Letters, page 995.
`perfectly capable': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 167.
`starved out': Robert Ross, `Statement of Evidence in His Case Against Lord Alfred Douglas', Clark Library.
`It is proposed to leave me': Letters, page 996.
`Moral people': Letters, page 996.
`very cultivated': Letters, page 1008.
`I hear you have': Leonard Smithers to Oscar Wilde, 26 January 1898, MS Walpole, Bodleian Library.
`The annoyance of living': Lord Alfred Douglas to Oscar Wilde, 7 January 1898, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 231.
`It is, of course, the most bitter': Letters, page 1029.
`I am so glad!': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 7 December 1897, in Ellmann, page 554.
A joy-song
`JACK: He seems to have': Works, page 381.
`A poem gives one': Letters, page 1022.
`I hear he had missed': Letters, page 1019.
`frightfully upset by this': Letters, page 1027.
`He has, as you know': Letters, page 1035.
`exquisite': Letters, page 1035.
`more or less demanding': Letters, page 1038.
`He says that he loved': Letters, page 1038.
`I have a sort of idea': Letters, page 1039.
`I kept on saying': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 346.
`not a serious one': Constance Wilde to Robert Ross, 12 March 1895, Clark Library, in Clark, Mrs Oscar Wilde, pages 159-160.
`brought about in the first place': Otho Holland Lloyd to A.J.A. Symons, 22 May 1937, Clark Library.
`a broken heart': Vyvyan Holland to Frank Harris, 9 May 1926, HRC.
`telegraphic tears': Vyvyan Holland to Frank Harris, 9 May 1926, HRC.
`It is really awful': Letters, page 1055.
`You will have heard': Letters, page 1054.
`Alcohol taken in sufficient': Belford, Oscar Wilde, page 281.
`Absinthe stands alone': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 75.
`seen Oscar over and over again': Lord Alfred Douglas to A.J.A. Symons, 8 March 1937, Clark L
ibrary.
`never been exactly sober': Stuart Merrill, `Some Unpublished Recollections', Adam International Review, numbers 241-243 (1954), page 12.
`waiters, coachmen, sellers': Jean Joseph Renaud, `The Last Months of Oscar Wilde in Paris', Clark Library.
`like a superhuman burst': Nancy Erber, `The French Trials of Oscar Wilde', pages 586-587.
`Like dear St Francis of Assisi': Letters, page 1145.
`I tell everybody not to': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 56.
`a fat old prostitute': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 305.
`when I was hot': Lord Alfred Douglas to Frank Harris, no date given, in Harris and Douglas, The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, page 54.
`I know that there is no beggar': George Bernard Shaw to Lord Alfred Douglas, 18 April 1938, in Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence, edited by Mary Hyde (London, 1982), pages 30-32.
`A wretched inn-keeper': Letters, page 1101.
I am so sorry': Letters, page 1102.
`I had a fearful letter': Letters, page 1061.
`Because I have written': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 367.
`the end of life': Oscar Wildes Oxford Notebooks, pages 141-142.
`the honey of romance': Works, page 864.
`To drift with every passion': Works, page 864.
`by chance': Letters, page 1025.
`all French lily and English rose': Letters, page 1077.
`His upper lip': Letters, page 1066.
`jonquil-like in aspect': Letters, page 1074.
`most beautiful mouth I know': Letters, page 1083.
retourne a son vomissement': Ellmann, pages 562-563.
`He grows dearer to me daily': Letters, page 1031.
`a born Catholic in romance': Letters, page 1076.
`No cheque this morning': Letters, page 1073.
`Bosie is being very angelic': Letters, page 1057.
`Bosie is now inseparable': Letters, page 1081.
`He apparently goes': Letters, pages 1057-1058.
`Bosie has no real': Letters, page 1081.
`He is devoted': Letters, page 1066.
`grown tired of the Florifer': Letters, page 1075.
`Bosie turned up': Letters, page 1070.
`Boys, brandy, and betting': Letters, page 1192.
`I cannot bear being alone': Letters, page 1068.
`cold shoulder': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, pages 184-185.
`realise that he was ruining': O'Sullivan, Some Letters to A.IA. Symons, page 45.
`the Circle of the Boulevards': Letters, page 1064.
`Edmond de Goncourt': Letters, page 1056.
`Edmond is very smart': Letters, page 1058.
`I don't wish to be horrid': Letters, page 1078.
`quite charming': Letters, page 1157.
`to smoke a cigarette': Letters, page 1074.
`A meeting with Leon': Letters, page 1078.
`a most passionate faun': Letters, page 1104.
`the harvest-moon': Letters, page 1106.
`beautiful boy of bad character': Letters, page 1108.
`snub-nosed little horror': Letters, page 1110.
`the sweetest': Letters, page 1144.
`a little Dionysiac': Letters, page 1107.
`Your little friend Alphonse': Letters, page 1107.
`these gutter perverts': Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 204.
`dear little absurd Robbie': Letters, page 1088.
`It is quite true': Letters, pages 1105-1106.
`As regards to my marrying': Letters, page 1116.
`the fishing population': Letters, page 1112.
`two special friends': Letters, page 1113.
`Yes, even at Napoule': Letters, page 1119.
`joy-song': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 281.
`one of the noble army': Letters, page 1114.
`a very pretty Italian boy': Letters, page 1112.
`charming fellow': Letters, page 1116.
`It is very pretty': Letters, page 1128.
`a beautiful young actor': Letters, page 1132.
`He is a silent, dull person': Letters, page 1132.
`to try and find a place': Letters, page 1139.
`I love them all': Letters, page 1179.
`most sweet': Letters, page 1179.
`friends': Letters, page 1179.
`But I met some': Letters, page 1179.
`I am glad you are enjoying': Lord Alfred Douglas to Oscar Wilde, early May 1900, in
Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, pages 231-232.
`dark and gloomy': Letters, page 1181.
`who knows nothing': Letters, page 1185.
`I have given up Armando': Letters, page 1182.
`It was the first time': Letters, page 1186.
`with tears and one kiss': Letters, page 1187.
`In the mortal sphere': Letters, page 1187.
`at the age of a flower': Letters, page 1040.
`You must not think': Letters, page 912.
`ebbing out in squalor': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 41.
`I give it as my firm opinion': The Shame of Oscar Wilde, page 117.
`be swept with poignant anguish': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 54.
`a looking out': O'Sullivan, Aspects of Wilde, page 155.
November 1900
`Can I see one of the fathers': Rupert Croft-Cooke, `Oscar Wilde Discoveries', Books and Bookmen (February 1974), page 40.
`almost hopeless': Letters, page 1219.
`I dreamt I was supping': Letters, page 1213.
`My wallpaper and I': Ellmann, page 581.
`very painful': Letters, page 1219.
`There was the so-called': Harris and Douglas, The Life and Confessions o f Oscar Wilde, page 23.
`I have never heard': Letters, page 1220.
`I am miserable': Lord Alfred Douglas to More Adey, December 1900, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 128.
`more lives than one': Works, page 892.
I was a man': Letters, pages 737-738.
`I dreamed of him': Douglas, Sonnets, page 38.
`And alien tears': Works, page 896.
`Yes. I have no doubt': Letters, page 1044.
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