Samuel Wright Collection of Wildeiana MS.1963.017
Finding aid by Rebecca Fenning Marschall
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2023
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles 90018
clark@humnet.ucla.edu
Contributing Institution:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Title: Samuel Wright collection of Wildeiana
source:
Wright, Samuel, 1905-
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1963.017
Physical Description:
12 items
Date (inclusive): about 1913-1923
Abstract: Clippings, ephemera, and other material related to Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, from the collection of Samuel Wright.
Physical Location: This collection is stored at the Clark Library.
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection open to research.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated to the Clark Library in 1963 by Samuel Wright (accession MS.1963.017).
Biographical Note
Samuel Wright (born 1905) was a Walter Pater researcher. His published works include
A Bibliography of the Writings of Walter H. Pater (1975), and
An Informative Index to the Writings of Walter H. Pater. Wright lived in Colchester, Essex, England.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item, box/folder number], Samuel Wright Collection of Wildeiana, MS.1963.017, UCLA William Andrews Clark
Memorial Library.
Processing Note
The material in this collection was processed and described in 2022 by Rebecca Fenning Marschall, and is also included in
the Clark Library Wildeiana finding aid (
available via the OAC ).
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a small collection of clippings, articles, ephemera, and other material related to Oscar Wilde
and to Lord Alfred Douglas, from the collection of researcher Samuel Wright. Materials date from 1904-1923 and include articles
from popular magazines, newspapers, and other publications.
These items are also described as a part of the Clark Library's Wildeiana finding aid (
available via the OAC ).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Ephemera -- 20th century
Clippings -- 20th century
Wright, Samuel, 1905-
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 34
De Profundis: Suppressed fragments held in The British Museum for publication in 1960, The Cornhill Booklet
1914
box Wildeiana 29, Folder 5
"Intimate Revelations Concerning Oscar Wilde" (about Frank Harris memoir), unknown newspaper
1916 August 20
box Wildeiana 29, Folder 4
Review of The Collected Poetry of Lord Alfred Douglas in The Times Literary Supplement
1919 November 6
box Wildeiana 30, Folder 4
Review of A Critic in Pall Mall by Oscar Wilde, The Times Literary Supplement
1919 Oct 30
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 36
"Books of the Day: An Oscar Wilde Fragment, Love in Burmah" (review of For the Love of the King), unknown newspaper
1920
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 32
First page of Plain Speech edited by Lord Alfred Douglas
1921 December 3
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 30
Charles Wells, "Written in a Library" column on The Yellow Book, Bristol Times and Mirror
1922 Nov 25
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 38
"A Burmese Masque," review of For the Love of the King), unknown newspaper
1922 October 26
box Wildeiana 30, Folder 3
Oscar Wilde, "Notes and Comments on Modern Poetry," Cassell's Weekly
1923 May 16
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 31
"Tragic Echoes" (review of Echo de Paris by Laurence Housman),
Sunday Times
1923
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 35
"Heard at the Cinema: Gossip about films" with photograph of Alla Nazimova in Salome, Round the Town
1923 May 12
box Wildeiana 28, Folder 37
Still photograph of Alla Nazimova in a scene from the filmed adaptation of Salome; press photograph of Dorothy Hurst as Salome
in "The Midnight Follies" at the Hotel Metropole, Round the Town
1923
