• Title
  Series 01: Maurice Schwabe letters received, 1893-1894
• Call number
  Safe 1/2c
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1893-1894
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials
• Reference code
  947144
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.04 metres of textual material (1 box) - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  5 Mar. 1893, with postscripts 6, 9 Mar.; 25 Mar. 1893; Two autograph letters received from Lord Alfred Douglas, The Close, Salisbury, when Schwabe was on route from England to Australia and New Zealand. Douglas addresses Schwabe as 'Pretty Boy' and signs himself 'Bosie'. Douglas writes about their mutual acquaintances and informs Schwabe that Oscar Wilde is being blackmailed by Alfred Wood over letters written by Wilde to Douglas.
  
  25 Oct. 1894; Letter received from his mother, giving him financial advice and stating that she fears he has fallen in with bad companions in Sydney.
• General note
  
  Microfilm available at CY 3468, frames 16 - 46 (Safe 1/2c)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 947177
• Exhibited in
  
  Art & About Sydney: Public Space - Private Lives - State Library of New South Wales (20 September - 20 October, 2013). Applies to: page 2-3
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE380601

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