![]() Murray, Bosie, 2000, pp.260-4 for a full account of the affair). The collaboration ended in failure, blackmail and further accusations of libel, and Douglas took ownership of the Preface, publishing it independently at the end of the 1925 (see D. In March 1925, Douglas was approached by Frank Harris, who claimed he wanted to make amends for his sensational – and, frankly, libellous – 1916 work, The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, in which he painted Bosie as villain: Harris offered Douglas the chance to set the record straight, and the two agreed to publish a ‘New Preface’ for the edition. Comprising typescripts and galley proofs, with annotations and emendations in the hands of Lord Alfred Douglas, Frank Harris, and an editor, in pen and pencil, including: typescript, ‘A Second Preface to “The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde” by Frank Harris’, annotations and emendations in the hands of Harris, Douglas and another (39 pages, 255 x 200mm) typescript, ‘New Preface to “The Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde” by Frank Harris and Lord Alfred Douglas/ Foreword by Lord Alfred Douglas’, titled and amended in Douglas’ hand (4 pages, 330 x 200mm) and nine sets of galley proofs, 27 July – 25 November 1925, two sets with annotations and emendations in Douglas’ hand, seven of the sets with annotations in the hand of an editor. Provenance: Reginald Caton (1897-1971, publisher) offered with a letter and related envelope addressed to Caton, 2 December 1925, from the Whitefriars Press, relating to the binding costs for the edition.Ī collection of typescripts and galley proofs tracing the convoluted preparation for publication of a New Preface to “The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde”, a coda to Frank Harris’s scandalous 1916 publication, with autograph emendations from the man at the centre of the affair, Bosie Douglas, under whose auspices the volume was eventually published. Annotated typescripts and galley proofs for the New Preface to "The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde", 1925.Īpprox.
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