Oscar Wilde manuscript material

1886

· To "Miss Nellie," i.e., Helena Maria Sickert [later Swanwick], suffragist : [circa 23 Jan 1886] : (MISC 0682) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 16. Tite Street. Chelsea. S.W. (embossed stationery) : body reads in full, "Is it in accordance with the right principles of poetical economy to sell a poet's love letters?" Enclosing a clipping of the first publication of Wilde's poem, "On the Recent Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters," from The Dramatic Review, volume II, number 52, January 23, 1886, page 249. The letter and the clipping were formerly laid in to H. Buxton Forman's vellum-bound copy of Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (1878), which contains an autograph letter from Keats to Brawne.