ALS, one page both sides, 4.5 x 6.75, Union Club letterhead, August 20, no year. Letter to poet Edgar Fawcett, in full: “I hope you will give me the pleasure of coming to my box tonight. Poet and dramatist that you are you confer an honour wherever you go.” In fine condition, with a faint stain to the lower corner and a neatly repaired edge separation at the central horizontal fold.
In an 1888 letter to editor Douglas Sladen, Wilde wrote glowingly of Fawcett: ‘The best of the young poets is Edgar Fawcett. I think him the best American poet there is—alive—but he is furious with me because I never answer his letters. If you are publishing an anthology you should not fail to use his work largely.’ A fantastic autograph boasting a fine literary association. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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