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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Autograph postcard signed ('Oscar Wilde') to Henry Davray, superscribed in autograph 'From M. Sebastian Melmoth. Berneval-sur-Mer', n.d. [June 1897], earnestly thanking him for 'your great kindness and courtesy in sending me such charming books. I am greatly touched by the sympathy and attention shown to me by you and others of the French writers'; Ernest Dowson is with Wilde, and talks of Davray; Wilde hopes some day to meet Davray, and to thank him for 'the interest you have shown me, and the delicate manner in which you have expressed it', 2 pages, oblong 8vo.
Wilde had been released from Reading Gaol on 18 May, and swiftly crossed to France, spending the summer in Berneval-sur-Mer under his pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth. Henry Davray (1873-1944) was a writer and translator from the English, closely associated with the Mercure de France. His Oscar Wilde: La Tragédie Finale appeared in 1928. The poet Ernest Dowson had met Wilde in 1890; he visited him in Berneval twice in the course of June 1987. The present letter is apparently unpublised; the earliest published letter from Wilde to Davray dates from December 1897.
Wilde had been released from Reading Gaol on 18 May, and swiftly crossed to France, spending the summer in Berneval-sur-Mer under his pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth. Henry Davray (1873-1944) was a writer and translator from the English, closely associated with the Mercure de France. His Oscar Wilde: La Tragédie Finale appeared in 1928. The poet Ernest Dowson had met Wilde in 1890; he visited him in Berneval twice in the course of June 1987. The present letter is apparently unpublised; the earliest published letter from Wilde to Davray dates from December 1897.
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