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Wilde (Oscar) and Lord Alfred Douglas -- Douglas (Alfred): The Collected Satires, number 85 of 250 copies on vergé d'arches crème à la forme signed by the author, sm. folio, Fortune Press, [1926] [Ridler 24], later morocco-backed cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; with a 6pp. a.l.s. by Douglas, dated Calvados, August 11 1897, to More: 'I thought Bobbie was with Oscar, has he already gone back to England? ... I am very bored all alone here and have had not a soul come to see me all this time. Yours affectionately, Bosie'.

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Wilde (Oscar) and Lord Alfred Douglas -- Douglas (Alfred): The Collected Satires, number 85 of 250 copies on vergé d'arches crème à la forme signed by the author, sm. folio, Fortune Press, [1926] [Ridler 24], later morocco-backed cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; with a 6pp. a.l.s. by Douglas, dated Calvados, August 11 1897, to More: 'I thought Bobbie was with Oscar, has he already gone back to England? ... I am very bored all alone here and have had not a soul come to see me all this time. Yours affectionately, Bosie'.

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The bulk of the letter is taken up with Douglas petulantly berating More for having plagiarised his 'Animal Rhymes' without acknowledgement: 'Yours are merely imitations and in my opinion quite inferior ... Of course no poet or original artist can prevent people from copying his work.'

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