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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 227

Great Britain
Lord Alfred Douglas / (Oscar Wilde)
1941 Autograph letter signed (two sides) written by Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), poet, journalist and lover of Oscar Wilde, son of the Marquess of Queensbury. He writes to an unidentified correspondent forwarding a newspaper copy of a poem he wrote that was published in the Evening Standard on 4 July 1941 titled "The Old Soldier", in favour of peace, but with reservations

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