by Neil McKenna
`corrupting the youth': Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 290.
`preaching corruption': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, page 248, translated by Sian Jones.
`a young man with a promising career': d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 187.
`the tiniest rivulet of text': Sewell, In the Dorian Mode, page 40.
`Oscar Wilde has been charming': Pierre Lout's to Georges Lout's, 22 April 1893, in Ellmann, page 393.
`fatal connection': Hull McCormack, John Gray, page 106.
`I wanted to have a friend': Fryer, Andre & Oscar, page 67.
that sexual relations': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`better, saner, finer philosophy': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 155.
`a mock marriage': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
Brazen candour
`Really, if the lower orders': Works, page 358.
`Ossian Savage': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, pages 221-222.
`missing word competition': Mason, Art and Morality, page 22.
`a peculiarly plain boy': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 207-208.
`private parts': statement of Walter Grainger, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`placed his penis': statement of Walter Grainger, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`very serious trouble': statement of Walter Grainger, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I really don't care twopence': d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 53.
`under the circumstances': Letters, page 702.
`acted as before to me': statement of Walter Grainger, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`frightened': statement of Walter Grainger, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`the fun of being with Oscar': Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 364.
`I have done no work here': Letters, page 566.
`finding that life in meadow and stream': Letters, page 567.
`You've no idea the sort of face': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 104.
peculiar': statement of Gertrude Simmonds, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Much to my surprise Mr Wilde': statement of Gertrude Simmonds, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`punch him': statement of Ernest Mitchelmore, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`The morning of the day': Letters, page 692.
`sullenly': Letters, page 692.
`four wire baskets filled': Oscar Wilde's Bankruptcy Proceedings, High Court of Bankruptcy, B9/428, PRO.
`Ross was by way of being devoted': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 70-71.
`Freddie is the one friend': Robert Ross to Christopher Millard, 6 September 1913, in Maureen Borland, Wilde's Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross 1869-1918 (Oxford, 1990), page 194.
`slender, attractive, impulsive boy': Douglas, Autobiography, page 71.
`one of my greatest friends': Lord Alfred Douglas to Percy Douglas, `The Constant Nymph', Maggs Brothers Limited, no date.
`contains a great deal': Ricketts, Self-Portrait, page 124.
`a woman of grave, Greek beauty': Works, page 515.
`Suppose when I leave': Works, page 529.
`Yours is a very nasty scandal': Works, page 528.
`He and I are closer than friends': Works, page 551.
`the game of life': Works, page 528.
`high character, high moral tone, high principles': Works, page 577.
`my secret and my shame': Works, page 562.
`Do you think that it is weakness': Works, page 538.
`pitiless in her perfection': Works, page 561.
`The ten commandments': Works, page 558.
any secret dishonour or disgrace': Works, page 534.
`Women are not meant to judge us': Works, page 579.
A pugilist of unsound mind
`The basis of every scandal': Works, page 472.
`we shall have you Prime Minister': Works, page 581.
`a man of forty': Works, page 518.
`a nervous temperament': Works, page 518.
`A personality of mark': Works, page 518.
`firmly-chiselled mouth': Works, page 518.
`undisciplined temper': Lord Acton to George Murray, Whit Sunday 1892, bundle 1674, Atholl Archive, Blair Castle.
`an excellent, amiable young man': Murray, Bosie, page 66.
`brightness and good temper': George Murray to Lord Acton, 19 October 1894, MS10049, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.
`cultured, charming and generous': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`there was something very winning': Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 19 October 1894, BL Add MSS 48665, British Library.
`he was much liked': Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 19 October 1894, BL Add MSS 48665, British Library.
`the most loveable youth': Arthur Ellis to Lord Rosebery, 22 October 1894, MS 10049, National Library of Scotland.
`every boy of good looks': Symonds, Memoirs, page 94.
`little bandbox': Robert Rhodes James, Rosebery (London, 1985), page 56.
`devoted': Brian Roberts, The Mad Bad Line: The Family of Lord Alfred Douglas (London, 1981), page 159.
`became attracted': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Like the Arabs and the Ottomans': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`considering some of the things': Lewis Harcourt, 1891, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, pages 184-185.
'Brookfield's zeal in the pursuit of homosexuals': H. Montgomery Hyde to Rupert
Hart-Davis, 27 May 1967, HRC.
`One eminent personage': `Xavier Mayne' (pseudonym), The Intersexes: A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life (Rome, 1908), page 237.
`soiree': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`the very eccentric': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`homosexual to the fingertips': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Lord Douglas took me aside': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`He was extremely and ideally handsome': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Lord Queensberry was for the moment furious': diary of Sir Algernon West, 5 June 1893, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 160.
`Scarlet Marquis': Letters, page 621.
`I have quite given up': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 157.
`drunken, declasse and half-witted': Letters, page 707.
`Any possibility there may have been': Rhodes James, Rosebery, page 300.
`the paramount influence': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Many scandalous anonymous letters': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Cher Fat Boy': Queensberry to Lord Rosebery, 22 August 1893, MS 10170 f255, National Library of Scotland. ---- --- ----- ----
`Jew nancy boy': Queensberry to Lord Rosebery, 22 August 1893, MS 10170 f255, National Library of Scotland.
`peerage business': Queensberry toy Lord Rosebery, 22 August 1893, MS 10170 f255, National Library of Scotland. ---- --- -----
`I have a punching ball': Queensberry to Lord Rosebery, 22 August 1893, MS 10170 f255, National Library of Scotland.
`The Marquis of Queensberry, in consequence': Rhodes James, Rosebery, page 287.
`It is a material and unpleasant': Rhodes James, Rosebery, page 287.
`God help the country': Queensberry to Lord Rosebery, 22 August 1893, MS 10170 f255, National Library of Scotland.
A schoolboy with wonderful eyes
`Little boys should be obscene': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 373.
`rich clusters of vine leaves': Murray, Bosie, page 49.
`Nor have I ever seen Oscar': Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reginald Turner, page 53.
`scenes': Letters, page 692.
`I suspected that': Lord Alfred Douglas, Without Apology.
,no intellectual obligation': Letters, page 692.
the one really true thing': Letters, page 692.
`Ultimately the bond': Letters, page 692.
`trivial in thought and ac
tion': Letters, page 692.
`The froth and folly': Letters, page 692.
`the eternal quest for beauty': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Karns Jackson, 9 April 1894, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 55.
`a malady, or a madness, or both': Letters, page 730.
`You were extremely angry': Letters, page 692.
`But in reality, I could not': Letters, page 693.
`a good opportunity': Letters, page 693.
`I have just finished translating': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Karns Jackson, 31 August 1893, HRC.
`The general philistine attacks': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Karns Jackson, 10
September 1893, HRC.
`I am bored to death': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Kains Jackson, 31 August 1893, HRC.
`What I said about the `Straw Hat": Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Kains Jackson, 10 September 1893, HRC.
Straw Hat, No Band (for Friend)': Janet Taylor and Kenneth Cliff, `Mr Lock: Hatter to Oscar Wilde and Associates', The Wildean, number 22 (January 2003), page 21.
`and I saw thee': Lord Alfred Douglas, `A Port in the Aegean', in Murray, Bosie, page 50.
`I was so fascinated by the expression': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Kains Jackson, 31 August 1893, HRC.
`I am held fast by the lassoo of desire': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robbie Ross, 11 February 1895, Hyde Collection.
`really very fond': Letters, page 785.
`no matter what you wrote': Letters, page 693.
`It was represented to me': Letters, page 693.
'March '93, for Aubrey': Matthew Sturgis, Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography (London, 1998), pages 131-132.
`the most monstrous of orchids': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, page 270.
`Absinthe is to all other drinks': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 75.
`certain forms of crime': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 10 October 1892, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 26.
`Yes, yes, I look like a sodomite': Belford, Oscar Wilde, pages 204-205.
`made advances to upwards': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology q f Sex, page 15.
`advances on Beardsley': Robert Sherard to A.J.A. Symons, 31 May 1937, Hyde Collection.
`boasted of having had': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`I don't mind his morals': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Sales sont tes parties secretes': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`like a mad woman': Works, page 592.
`like the naughty scribbles': Paul Raymond and Charles Ricketts, Oscar Wilde: Recollections (London, 1932), page 52.
`used to inspect': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`I can tell you I had a warm time': Aubrey Beardsley to Robert Ross, late November 1893, in Aubrey Beardsley, Letters, edited by Henry Maas, J.L. Duncan and W.G. Good (London, 1970), page 58.
`There have been very great': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 19 December 1893, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 84.
`frequently': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`a nice-looking, well-mannered': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`there was something suspicious': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`the desire of his soul': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 19 December 1893, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 84.
`the letter contained the word "Boy"': Oscar Browning to Frank Harris, 3 November 1919, HRC.
`On Saturday the boy slept': Oscar Browning to Frank Harris, 3 November 1919,
HRC.
`formed the acquaintance': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`The schoolboy Helen': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 19 December 1893, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 84.
a pretty sharp lookout': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`left absolutely no doubt': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`in its naked hideousness': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 12 October 1893, in Anstruther, Oscar Browning, pages 133-134.
`I am miserable about poor Toddy': Mina Wortham to Oscar Browning, 16 October 1893, in Anstruther, Oscar Browning, page 135.
`Ross is simply one of a gang': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 15 October 1893, in Borland, Wildes Devoted Friend, page 34.
`Biscoe was surprised last evening': Mina Wortham to Oscar Browning, 16 October 1893, in Anstruther, Oscar Browning, page 135.
`very unsatisfactory': Robert Ross to Oscar Browning, 16 October 1893, in Anstruther, Oscar Browning, pages 135-136.
`It is frightfully dull here': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lord Percy Douglas, 16 October 1893, `The Constant Nymph', Maggs Brothers Limited, no date.
`Please don't let Mamma': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lord Percy Douglas, 16 October 1893, `The Constant Nymph', Maggs Brothers Limited, no date.
`decidedly ruffled': diary of George Ives, 19 October 1893, HRC.
`The fact is that': Mina Wortham to Oscar Browning, 16 October 1893, in Anstruther, Oscar Browning, page 135.
`Col. D- has been like many': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 25 October 1893, ALS King's College.
`They will doubtless get two years': Oscar Browning to Frank Harris, 3 November 1919, HRC.
`At length I am thankful': Biscoe Hale Wortham to Oscar Browning, 25 October 1893, in Anstruther, Oscar Browning, page 136.
On a gilded barge
`I don't think England': Works, page 467.
`I am not allowed to live': Robert Ross to Lord Alfred Douglas, October 1893, in Borland, Wilde's Devoted Friend, pages 35-36.
`blackmailing': Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 84.
`going in for the wildest folly': William Rothenstein to Margaret Woods, 28 October 1893, in Hyde, Lord Alfred Douglas, page 47.
`a long chat with OW.-1: diary of George Ives, 28 October 1893, HRC.
`is sleepless, nervous': Letters, page 575.
`Why not try and make arrangements': Letters, page 575.
`knowledge and concurrence': Letters, page 694.
`Douglas went to Egypt': Robert Ross to Frank Harris, 17 May 1914, HRC.
`I understand that':-di - ary of George Ives, 29 November 1893, HRC.
`the Sotadic Zone': Elaine Showalter, SexualAnarchy (Middlesex, 1990), pages 81-82.
`classical region of all abominations': Richard Burton, Terminal Essay (London, 1885).
`the highdried and highly respectable': Burton, Terminal Essay.
`I want to ask if you': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Karns Jackson, 29 November 1893, HRC.
`I am very unhappy': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Kains Jackson, 29 November 1893, HRC.
`culminating in one': Letters, page 693.
`I remember that afternoon': Letters, page 693.
`The usual telegrams': Letters, page 693.
`and under the influence': Letters, page 694.
`darling': statement of Gertrude Simmonds, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
with a sense of tragedy': Letters, page 934.
`sadly and seriously trying': Letters, page 694.
`I am happy in the knowledge': Letters, page 577.
`ruining his soul': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 6 June 1894, in CroftCooke, Bosie, page 91.
`I should also like to tell you': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 6 January 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 94.
`I am passionately fond of him': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 10 December 1893, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 92.
`There is nothing I would not do': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, ?March 1894, in Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 167.
`will be remembered and written about': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 10 December 1893, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 92.
`I went as
far as I could': Letters, page 694.
`At twelve o'clock you drove up': Letters, page 686.
`for luncheon, dinner, suppers, amusements': Letters, page 688.
`work undisturbed': Letters, page 686.
`had a great number of callers': statement of Thomas Price, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I would not allow him': statement of Ernest Scarfe, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I remember him because': statement of Thomas Price, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Frank': Letters, page 570.
`You must tell me': Letters, page 570.
`I am so glad you like': Letters, page 585.
`deeply moved': Letters, page 586.
`I am enjoying this place very much': Lord Alfred Douglas to Lady Queensberry, 10 December 1893, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 89.
`a pretty, interesting boy': diary of W.S. Blunt, 13 December 1893, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
`Here comes Cromer!': Robert Hichens, Yesterday (London, 1947), page 60.
`the boy-snatcher of Clement's Inn': Letters, page 878.
`the last word in comfort': Douglas, Autobiography, page 73.
`More fair than any flower is thy face': Douglas, Autobiography, page 73.
`a piece of perfidy': Lord Alfred Douglas to Hesketh Pearson, 13 November 1944, HRC.
The Scarlet Marquis
`A typical Englishman': Day, Oscar Wilde, page 68.
`hurled out of the official residence': Robert Ross to Frank Harris, 17 May 1914, HRC.
`the fleshpots of Egypt': Letters, page 704.
`a romantic encounter': Queensberry, Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas, page 33.
`I know that on the sand': Douglas, Sonnets, page 21.
`I confess I was astounded': Letters, page 695.
`Finally you actually telegraphed': Letters, page 695.
`I said that time healed every wound': Letters, page 695.
`passionate telegrams': Letters, page 695.
`a threat of suicide': Letters, page 695.
`When I arrived in Paris': Letters, page 696.
`flame-coloured': Works, page 280.
`Love is wiser than Philosophy': Works, page 280.
