LITTÉRATURE BRITANNIQUE
Estimation :
200 - 300 EUROS
Adjudication :
1 500 €
Description
– 6 lettres et un télégramme, en anglais. « La fausseté des histoires de mon supposé mauvais traitement de Wilde... » – Douglas (Alfred). Correspondance de 5 lettres autographes signées et un télégramme, adressés à la marquise de Croizier, Sabine Cogordan. Hove (Sussex), 10 novembre 1935 : « ... The agony of losing her was terrible... My mother was 90 last birthday, but after she had been dead about an hour, all her great beauty came back to her, & she looked like a girl... » – Hove, 13 janvier 1936. « The new edition of my poems (2 vols Lyrics & Sonnets [parue en 1935]... ) has been out for about two months. It is having a large sale in spite of the fact that there have been already before this last publication over 000 copies of my poems sold in various editions in the last 35 to 40 years... » Hove, 24 janvier 1937 : « ... I had a letter from monsieur Maurice Rostand, as he may have told you. I replied at length & I later sent him a copy of Robert Sherard's recent "Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde" book, which I hoped would convince him of the falsity of the stories of my supposed ill treatment of Wilde. He wrote very kindly & I hope that he will now realise that his play which I objected to was very unfair to me in spite of the fact that it was flattering to me as a poet... » Alfred Douglas s'était querellé avec Maurice Rostand en 1934 au sujet de la pièce de celui-ci, Le Procès d'Oscar Wilde, dans laquelle il était présenté comme ayant abandonné Wilde, et c'était la marquise de Croizier qui, anglophile convaincue, avait permis la réconciliation des deux auteurs. Hove, 8 avril 1940 : « ... I have been meaning to send you this book [Oscar Wilde, A Summing Up] ever since it came out on the 1st of february. It has had splendid reviews... I was delighted to hear you liked my Without apology [volume de mémoires paru en 1938, où il revient sur la question de ses relations d'Oscar Wilde]. I sent a copy to Maurice Rostand, but he did not acknowledge it. So I shall not send him this one... » Etc. Joint, 3 coupures de presse concernant Alfred Douglas (1935-1937). « L'effet de la guerre en Afrique du Sud sur la littérature anglaise... » – Hardy (Thomas). Lettre autographe signée au journaliste Gilbert de Rorthays. Dorchester [Dorset], 1er février 1902. « ... The kind of effect produced has been the vast multiplication of books on the war itself, books on former wars, books of action as opposed to reflection, & large quantities of warlike & patriotic poetry. These works naturally throw into the shade those that breathe a more quiet & philosophic spirit. A curious minor feature in the case, among a certain class of writers, being the disguise under christian terminology of principles not necessarily wrong from the point of view of international politics, but obviously anti-christian, because inexorable & masterful... ».
