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WILDE, Oscar (1856-1900). Wit and dramatist.
Autograph Letter Signed ('Oscar') to an unnamed correspondent ('My Dear delightful Viking'), 1 page 8vo, 16 Tite Street, Chelsea, no date. A charming and characteristic letter inviting a friend to lunch.
Since Wilde has not given a name, and only the intiguing addition 'the Viking is also a great playwright', and as there are no references in the indexes to Ellman's biography of Wilde or the Complete Letters (ed Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, 2000) either to the correspondent or indeed to the Lyric (a club in Prince of Wales Buildings in Coventry Street near Piccadilly Circus), we have so far been unable to identify the him/her. The letter is evidently unpublished.
'Let us lunch at the Lyric Tomorrow at 1.30. It is ages since I met you - isn't it? It seems so to me. ...'

[No: 22450]

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