Autograph letter signed from Oscar Wilde, Dublin, to Rev. Matthew Russell [manuscript], 1877 June 15 or 16.

2 leaves ; 23 x 19 cm

Concerns publication of his article and poem on Keat's grave. Wilde also declares "it is a noble privilege to count oneself of the same race as Keats or Shakespeare." Address on item: Merrion Square.

Addressed to "Sir," presumably an editor of the Irish monthly which published Wilde's The Grave of Keats as Heu Miserande Puer in an article entitled The Tomb of Keats in the July, 1877.

Wilde's artile "The tomb of Keats" along with the sonnet "Heu miserande puer" was published in the Irish monthly for July 1877. The sonnet, revised and renamed "The grave of Keats," was later published in Wilde's Poems (1881).

Letter is addressed simply to "Sir," but recipient identifiable as Matthew Russell, editor of the Irish monthly from its beginning in 1873. Russell answered this letter on June 17, 1877.

Bifolium.

The complete letters of Oscar Wilde / edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. New York: Henry Holt, 2000, p. 53.

Ireland -- Dublin.

Y.c.1653 (1)

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