LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945)

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LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945)
Autograph manuscript entitled ("My Conversion to Catholicism"), signed ("Alfred Douglas"), 5 pages, folio, [n.p.], November 1932.
The first 3½ pages of this manuscript are largely a quotation from his autobiography (published 1929, chapter 7), but the remaining 1½ possibly unpublished pages offer further thoughts and describe his current religious feelings. "Although from a worldly point of view the years 1910 and 1911 were the most successful of my life, I was during that time drawing nearer every day to a cataclysm which broke up my home, devastated my life and turned me for many years into a tormented and hunted man ... I weathered it solely because I was a Catholic, for if I had not been one I would inevitably have decided that life was not worth living, and would have taken the quickest way out of it."
Browned, 3in. long vertical tear to head of each page, last page spotted.

Provenance

Given by Douglas to the vendor's father.

Lot Essay

Alfred Douglas, English poet and son of the 8th Marquis of Queensberry, is chiefly remembered for his association with Oscar Wilde, to which his father strongly objected, thereby provoking Wilde to bring the ill-advised libel action which led to his own arrest and

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