Christopher Millard Collection of Oscar Wilde News Clipping Albums, 1909-1926

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Summary

Creators:
Millard, Christopher, 1872-1927
Abstract:
Set of newspaper clipping albums compiled by Christopher Sclater Millard between 1909 and 1927, containing news articles and other clippings related to Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas and the larger Wilde circle of colleagues and interests.
Extent:
56 bound volumes
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item incl. volume number], Christopher Millard Collection of Oscar Wilde News Clipping Albums, Call no. Wildeiana Clippings, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of 56 volumes of press clipping albums compiled by Oscar Wilde bibliographer Christopher Sclater Millard between 1909 and 1927. The majority of clippings are largely related to Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (and his ongoing legal cases). Most clippings are from British local and national newspapers and were collection for Millard by professional news cutting companies.

Acquisition information:

Purchase, Seymour de Ricci at Dulau and Company, 1928 (accession MS.1928.002).

Dulau 218 (page 119) ( A collection of original manuscripts, letters books of Oscar Wilde, including his letters written to Robert Ross from Reading gaol and unpublished letters, poems plays formerly in the possession of Robert Ross, C.S. Millard (Stuart Mason) and the younger son of Oscar Wilde , London: Dulau Co., Ltd, [1928]).

Processing information:

Before 2008, collection physically processed by Clark Library staff and some loose clippings removed to separate envelopes.

Collection processed and described by Elizabeth Roy in 2015; EAD finding aid by Rebecca Fenning Marschall in 2016.

Physical location:
This collection is stored at the Clark Library.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Preferred citation:

[identification of item incl. volume number], Christopher Millard Collection of Oscar Wilde News Clipping Albums, Call no. Wildeiana Clippings, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018, US
Contact:
(310) 794-5155
clark@humnet.ucla.edu
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