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Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills, (1854-1900), author

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Surname:	Wilde
Forenames:	Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
Gender:	Male
Date:	1854-1900
History:	Irish playwright & dramatist. Brought an un-successful action for criminal libel against the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895. Later in 1895 found guilty of homosexual offences & sent to prison for two years. Died in Paris in November 1900.
Biography:	ODNB link for Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills (1856-1900), author
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275100 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P147159 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1889-1930: Director of Public Prosecutions: Case Papers, Old Series	The National Archives, Kew	DPP 1
2	corresp and literary papers	See information in published source		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
3	corresp, literary MSS and papers (c5900 items)	University of California Library, Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library		See NUC MS 72-31
4	corresp, literary MSS and papers (100 items)	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division		See NUC MS 82-1245
5	1851-1957: papers (108 items)	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library	Oscar Wilde
6	1887-93: letters (9); literary MSS	Huntington Library		See Guide to Literary MSS 1979
7	literary papers	Rosenbach Museum and Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
8	literary papers	The Morgan Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
9	papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	University College collection	See Paul Morgan, Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian 1980
10	1883-c1920: legal corresp and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See BRA Annual Report 1986-87
11	papers rel to his literary estate	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections		See The Bodleian Library Record, Oct. 1993, p.435
12	1876-78: letters (16 TS copies) to Reginald Harding	Oxford University: Magdalen College Archives	MS 301	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
13	1893-95: telegrams (15) to Ada Leverson	Harvard University: Houghton Library	MS ENG 775	NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
14	1880-82: letters to various members of the Lewis family and others	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Dep c 831, 838-39, 848, 850	NRA 40097
15	c1876-81: letters (19) to William Welsford Ward	Oxford University: Magdalen College Archives	MS 297	NRA 20579 Magdalen Coll
16	1910-47: corresp (5 vols) with the Society of Authors rel to his estate	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 56854-9
17	19th - 20th cent: papers incl literary MSS, lecture notes and corresp	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add 81619-81874	See Annual Return 2006

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