WILDE OSCAR: (1854-1900) Irish Poet and Playwright. A literary icon, best known for his novel ...

WILDE OSCAR: (1854-1900) Irish Poet and Playwright. A literary icon, best known for his novel The Picture of Dorian Grey, for his Epigrams, and for his criminal conviction for indecency for consensual homosexual acts and imprisonment. Wilde died at the age of 46 from meningitis. Autograph envelope, small oblong 8vo, London, 2nd October 1890, to Walter Hamilton, Clapham Common. The envelope, addressed in Wilde´s hand, bears to the verso the embossed black sender´s address ''16, Tite Street, Chelsea.S.W.'' Oscar Wilde lived at 34 (formerly 16) Tite street from his marriage in 1884 until his arrest in 1895. VG

Walter Hamilton (1844-1899) English Writer. Author of Parodies of English and American Authors. Walter Hamilton wrote in his Aesthetic Movement in England the following quote `Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as has been his career, it has been full of promise for the future. The son of highly intellectual parents, he has had an exceptional education, has travelled much in wild and remote, through classic lands, and in the course of these journeys has learnt to appreciate the beauties of the old authors, in whose works whilst at college he attained exceptional proficiency. But his naturally enthusiastic temperament teaches him to hope for better in the future than has been achieved in the past, and to see how vast will be the influence of Art and Literature on the coming democracy of Intellect, when education and culture shall have taught men to pride themselves on what they have done, and not alone on the deeds of their ancestors.´