by Neil McKenna
`love to him was always a sacrifice': diary of George Ives, 4 June 1903, HRC.
`completely got round': Douglas, Autobiography, page 99.
`Dear Bosie is with us': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 12 March 1894, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, pages 91-92.
`caressed': statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`exceedingly distressed': statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`Your disgusted so-called father': the Marquis of Queensberry to Lord Alfred Douglas, in Ellmann, page 417.
`No wonder people are talking': the Marquis of Queensberry to Lord Alfred Douglas, in Ellmann, pages 417-418.
`Sir I would request of you': statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`What a funny little man': statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`a telegram of which the commonest street-boy': Letters, pages 707-708.
`You impertinent young jackanapes': the Marquis of Queensberry to Lord Alfred Douglas, 1894, in Croft-Cooke, Bosie, page 98.
`some withdrawal': statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`save': Statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 9 March 1895, CRIM 1 41 /6, PRO.
`I cried over you': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 218.
`malformation of the parts of generation': Ellmann, page 405.
`I wish you would write': Lord Alfred Douglas to Charles Kains Jackson, 9 April 1894, HRC.
`the slave of beauty': Works, pages 312-313.
`Beauty-Spirit': diary of George Ives, 23 December 1893, HRC.
`to get a glimpse': diary of George Ives, 26 October 1893, HRC.
`the gay, gilt and gracious lad': Letters, page 588.
`I had a frantic telegram': Letters, page 589.
`ugly rumours': Martin Birnbaum, Oscar Wilde: Fragments and Memories (London, 1920), page 9.
`Stop to let this man out!': Birnbaum, Oscar Wilde, page 9.
`He has nothing to say': Pall Mall Gazette, 30 March 1889, in d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 27.
`Who did I meet here?': Sheridan, Andre Gide, page 100.
`a burly friend': statement of the Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements,
private collection.
`I am off to the country': Letters, page 592.
"`Sit down!" said Queensberry curtly': Mason, Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried, pages 37-39 and Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, pages 57-58.
`waving his small hands': Letters, page 699.
`I am not and have never been ashamed': Douglas, Autobiography, page 102.
`Under these circumstances': George Lewis to Oscar Wilde, 7 April 1894, in Ellmann, page 420.
`I do not see why I should': the Marquis of Queensberry to Alfred Montgomery, 6 July 1894, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 199.
`plausible George Wyndham': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, pages 198-199.
`gradually drop': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, pages 198-199.
`My Lord Marquis': C.O. Humphreys to the Marquis of Queensberry, 11 July 1894, in statement of Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I have received your letter': the Marquis of Queensberry to C.O. Humphreys, 13 July 1894, in statement of Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I now made up my mind': statement of Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`As you return my letters unopened': statement of Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`outrageous libels': statement of Marquis of Queensberry, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`If I am to be openly defied': Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 200.
`a maniac': Letters, page 598.
The boys on the beach
`When you really want love': Day, Oscar Wilde, page 158.
`own dear boy': Letters, page 594.
`own dearest boy': Letters, page 601.
`dear, wonderful boy': Letters, page 594.
`I want to see you': Letters, page 594.
`You are more to me': Letters, page 602.
`the Elect': Letters, page 1127.
`Their ideals are so different': diary of George Ives, 5 July 1894, in Stokes, Oscar Wilde, pages 72-73.
`brilliant as a shining jewel': diary of George Ives, 15 October 1893, HRC.
`Was awake till past 3': diary of George Ives, 16 October 1893, HRC.
`bright as Apollo': diary of George Ives, 24 October 1893, HRC.
`a difficult character': diary of George Ives, 16 October 1893, HRC.
`the Cause must not be injured': diary of George Ives, 16 October 1893, HRC.
`the original of Dorian Gray': diary of George Ives, 24 August 1894, HRC.
`is staying here tonight': diary of George Ives, 24 August 1894, HRC.
`That miserable traitor': diary of George Ives, 24 August 1894, HRC.
`I love superstitions': Coakley, Oscar Wilde, page 101.
`Always when they prophesy': Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, pages 284-285.
`the Sibyl of Mortimer Street': Letters, page 594.
`The only thing that consoles me': Letters, page 594.
`I have been deeply impressed': Letters, page 595.
`Your father is on the rampage': Letters, page 598.
`Your new Sibyl is really wonderful': Letters, page 602.
`curious and interesting': Edward Carpenter, Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk (London, 1919), page 15.
`prophets or priests': Carpenter, Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk, page 16.
`spiritual sight': diary of George Ives, 26 October 1893, HRC.
`positively prophetic in his power': diary of George Ives, 27 July 1894, HRC.
'"C" was very nervous': diary of George Ives, 27 July 1894, HRC.
`I am overdrawn £4l': Letters, page 598.
`The house, I hear, is small': Letters, page 598.
`Dearest Bosie, I have just come in': Letters, page 598.
`I had great fun': Lord Alfred Douglas to Robert Ross, 1894, in Ellmann, page 421.
`distinctly strained': Douglas, Autobiography, pages 59-60.
`I feel as tho' I must write': Constance Wilde to Arthur Humphreys, 1 June 1894, in Sotheby's, English Literature and History, London, 22 and 23 July 1985.
`I liked you': Constance Wilde to Arthur Humphreys, 1 June 1894, in Sotheby's, English Literature and History.
`I spoke to you': Constance Wilde to Arthur Humphreys, 1 June 1894, in Sotheby's, English Literature and History.
`Your marriage was made': Constance Wilde to Arthur Humphreys, 1 June 1894, in Sotheby's, English Literature and History.
`My Darling Arthur': Constance Wilde to Arthur Humphreys, 11 August 1894, in Sotheby's, English Literature and History.
`of rank and fashion': Letters, page 599.
`bored to death': Letters, page 785.
`invites down a lot of fashionable': Letters, page 599.
`prudish': Letters, page 599.
`an absurd experiment': Letters, page 599.
`extremely strong': Letters, page 600.
`I love him as I always did': Letters, page 934.
`Eighteen men were taken': Croft-Cooke, Feasting with Panthers, page 277.
`known': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 187.
`Oscar has at length been arrested': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 12 August 1894, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 97.
I was very sorry to read': Letters, page 603.
`Do tell me all about Alfred?': Letters, page 603.
`the vilest possible character': Croft-Cooke, Feasting with Panthers, page 278.
`helping the two boatmen': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 144.
`Pe
rcy left the day after': Letters, page 602.
`a youth of about eighteen': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 121.
`loafer': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, page 121.
`nearly always with': statement of Alfonso Harold Conway, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`took hold': statement of Alfonso Harold Conway, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`spent': statement of Alfonso Harold Conway, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`took me to his bedroom': statement of Alfonso Harold Conway, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
`I promised him': Hyde, Famous Trials 7, pages 122-123.
`in order that he shouldn't be ashamed': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 149.
`He acted as before': statement of Alfonso Harold Conway, 1895, witness statements, private collection.
The arsenic flower
`It is perfectly monstrous': Works, page 469.
`immaculately dressed': Hichens, Yesterday, pages 69-70.
`I thought him rather pleasant': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 106.
`unrelieved by any flashes': Letters, page 615.
`saw a good deal': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 106.
`it was a sort of photograph': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 106.
`an undisguised portrait': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`It is so interesting to be wonderful': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 16.
"`What a pity my poor father is so plain"': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 17.
`a young Greek god': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 94.
`one of the most utterly vicious': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 58.
`worshipped the abnormal': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 17.
`There are moments': Hichens, The Green Carnation, pages 20-21.
`a very pretty woman': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 18.
`quite £20,000 a year': Douglas, Autobiography, page 188.
`tall and largely built man': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 17.
`I was born epigrammatic': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 28.
`Prolonged purity wrinkles': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 25.
`There are only a few people': Hichens, The Green Carnation, in Bentley, The Importance of Being Constance, page 104.
`The bows and salutations': Letters, page 622.
the arsenic flower of an exquisite life': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 26.
`All the men who wore them': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 24.
`followers of the higher philosophy': Hichens, The Green Carnation, pages 73-74.
`The philosophy to be afraid': Hichens, The Green Carnation, pages 73-74.
`the one awkwardness': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 90.
`Do you love this carnation': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 96.
`He will be for me': Gide, Oscar Wilde, page 79.
`How exquisite rose-coloured youth is': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 80.
`The refining influence': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 101.
`Kindly allow me to contradict': Letters, page 617.
`the Sphinx of Modern Life': Letters, page 568.
`I am not surprised': Max Beerbohm to Ada Leverson, September 1894, in Speedie, Wonderful Sphinx, page 48.
`Esme and Reggie are delighted': Letters, page 615.
`a doubting disciple': Letters, page 615.
The Green Carnation ruined': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 107.
`invisible city of Sodom': Andre Raffalovich, L'Affaire Oscar Wilde, in Pine, Oscar Wilde, page 108.
`really raised the hue and cry': Sherard, Oscar Wilde, page 117.
`the book did me a lot of harm': Douglas, Autobiography, page 74.
`the Treasury will always give me': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`an elderly gentleman with a red face': Hichens, The Green Carnation, page 17.
`What is his father about': the Marquis of Queensberry to Minnie Douglas, 18 February 1895, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 206.
`You suddenly appeared': Letters, page 697.
`The next day, a Monday': Letters, page 697.
`bored': Letters, page 697.
`that dreadful low fever': Letters, page 697.
`In London you meet a friend': Letters, page 697.
`irritable voice and ungracious manner': Letters, page 698.
`At three in the morning': Letters, page 698.
`new pleasures were waiting': Letters, page 698.
`with renewed emphasis': Letters, page 698.
`It was an ugly moment for you': Letters, page 699.
`a common dinner knife': Letters, page 699.
`a very serious quarrel': Max Beerbohm to Ada Leverson, 7 July 1894, HRC.
`Oscar does not answer': Max Beerbohm to Ada Leverson, 7 July 1894, HRC.
`I am so pressed for money': Letters, page 597.
`My play is really very funny': Letters, page 602.
`in and out of his study': Marie Stopes, March 1939, in Murray, Bosie, page 302.
`To tell you a great secret': Robert Ross to Adela Schuster, 23 December 1900, in Robert Ross: Friend of Friends edited by Margery Ross (London, 1952), page 68.
`that we should treat all the trivial things': St 7ames's Gazette, 18 January 1895, in Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 254.
`a simple, unspoiled nature': Works, page 368.
`If I ever get married': Works, page 359.
`I thought you had come up': Works, page 359.
`a very high moral tone': Works, page 361.
`Nothing will induce me': Works, page 363.
`Exploded! Was he the victim': Works, page 408.
the sure prey of morbid passions': Letters, page 658.
`I am off to the country': Letters, page 592.
`I was going to tell you': Aleister Crowley to Robert Lockhart, 1913, in Timothy
d'Arch Smith, Bunbury: Two Notes on Oscar Wilde (Wiltshire), pages 7-8.
`I hope some of the faithful': Letters, page 1127.
`One name can make my pulses bound': John Gambril Nicholson, `Of Boys' Names',
in Christopher Craft, `Alias Bunbury', page 45.
`Have you read a volume': John Addington Symonds to an unnamed correspondent, 2 July 1892, in Craft, `Alias Bunbury', page 46.
`produces vibrations': Works, page 366.
I love scrapes': Works, page 374.
`I don't know a single chap': Works, page 374.
`a lady considerably advanced': Works, page 368.
`This treatise, "The Green Carnation"': Works, page 418.
`a most sweet and interesting': diary of George Ives, 13 November 1894, HRC.
`the most dreadful scrapes': Works, pages 361-362.
`I really am not going to be imprisoned': Works, pages 386.
`reckless extravagance': Works, page 385.
`farce': William Archer, The World, 20 February 1894, in Beckson, The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia, page 157.
`bitter trials': Works, page 382.
Love's sacrifice
`A kiss may ruin a human life': Works, page 511.
`partaken of out of doors': The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, British Newspaper Library.
`a very deadened report': The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, British Newspaper Library.
`Where can his Lordship be?': The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 183.
`I hope he hasn't shot himself : The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, British Newspaper Library.
`I will walk along beside the hedge': The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, British Newspaper Library.
`lying in the hedge': The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, British Newspaper Library. `head was very much sprinkled': in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 183.
`On my arrival I found': The Taunton Mail, 24 October 1894, British Newspaper Library.
`terrible news': Harry Toley to Lord Rosebery, 1894, MS 10097, Nation
al Library of Scotland.
`Drumlanrig is going to marry': Lewis Harcourt, 1894, in Roberts, The Mad Bad Line, page 186.
`What the result': Lord Drumlanrig to Lord Rosebery, 1894, MS 10097, National Library of Scotland.
`by setting private detectives': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`Queensberry wrote to the Prime Minister': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`had not met or spoken frankly': the Marquis of Queensberry to Alfred Montgomery, 1894, in Murray, Bosie, pages 69-70.
`a noble sacrifice': Backhouse, `The Dead Past'.
`an appalling tragedy': diary of W.S. Blunt, 25 October 1894, Fitzwilliam Museum.
`It seems unlikely': diary of W.S. Blunt, 25 October 1894, Fitzwilliam Museum.
`positive that his uncle Drumlanrig': Hyde, Oscar Wilde, page 171.
`a scandal lay behind it': personal communication by Sheila Colman.
`stained with a darker suggestion': Letters, page 700.
`There is no reason to suppose': Sir Edward Walter Hamilton, 19 October 1894, BL Add MSS 48665, British Library.
`prostrate on the earth': in Trevor Fisher, Oscar and Bosie: A Fatal Passion (London, 2002), page 1.
`Dear Lord Rosebery': George Murray to Lord Rosebery, 19 October 1894, MS 10049, National Library of Scotland.
`the Snob Queers like Rosebery': the Marquis of Queensberry to Lord Alfred Douglas, 1 November 1894, in Murray, Bosie, pages 69-70.
`polluted': Letters, page 700.
`I settled myself to go': Letters, page 700.
`I telegraphed at once': Letters, page 700.
`Wickedness is a myth': Works, page 1244.
"'I am Shame"': Lord Alfred Douglas, `In Praise of Shame', Douglas, Sonnets, page 22.
`nothing on earth to do': Lord Alfred Douglas, `Foreword' to Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page xvi.
`I am the Love': Douglas, Lyrics, page 56.
,the good luck to meet Oscar': John Francis Bloxam to Charles Kains Jackson, 19 November 1894, Clark Library.
`gaze': Mayne, The Intersexes, pages 426-427.
`The Priest and the Acolyte is not by Dorian': Letters, page 625.
`There is no sin': The Chameleon, volume I, number 1 (1894).
`too direct': Letters, page 625.
`certainly a case for the police': Jerome K. Jerome, To-Day, 29 December 1894, in d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 58.
`That young men are here': Jerome, To-Day, 29 December 1894, in d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 58.
