Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)


Read by Rob Marland

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This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter about prison reform to the editor of the Daily Chronicle. For most of the last three years of his life Wilde lived in Paris, but his letters also describe visits to Switzerland and Italy. The collection ends with one of Wilde's last surviving letters, which he wrote from his deathbed to beg a friend for money to pay his medical bills. The letters, some of which have been excerpted or redacted, are sourced from auction catalogues, biographies, collections of letters to Ross, and other texts in the public domain. For a complete collection of Wilde's letters, please see "The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde," (2000) edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis. (Rob Marland)

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To Robert Ross, Jan. - 21. Feb. 1898 3:52 Read by Rob Marland
To Frank Harris, winter 1897 2:44 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 28 Feb. 1898 1:30 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Sherard 1:00 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 23 Mar. 1898 (version 1) 1:15 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross (version 2) 3:03 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers 1:33 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 15 Mar. 1898 1:58 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 17 Mar. 1898 1:22 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1 Apr. 1898 1:47 Read by Rob Marland
To the editor of the Daily Chronicle, 24 Mar. 1898 (re: prison reform) 15:45 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Mar. 1898 1:12 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 30 Mar. 1898 1:18 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 28 Mar. 1898 0:44 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 12 Apr. - 14 May 1898 11:12 Read by Rob Marland
To an unidentified correspondent, 14 May 1898 1:16 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 18 May 1898 1:09 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 20 May 1898 1:27 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 20 & 24 May 1898 6:08 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers 1:28 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 25 May 1898 (version 1) 2:35 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers (version 2) 0:55 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 25 May - June 1898 14:46 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 23 June 1898 1:15 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 27-29 June 1898 18:30 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 12 Aug. 1898 1:29 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers 0:47 Read by Rob Marland
To Frank Harris, 13 Oct. 1898 2:33 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 16 Aug. 1898 2:31 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1898 1:42 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Aug. 1898 1:12 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 3 Oct. - Dec. 1898 10:36 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 14 Dec. 1898 0:55 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 27 & 28 Dec. 1898 3:00 Read by Rob Marland
To Mrs Leonard Smithers, 28 Dec. 1898 2:06 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 2 Jan. 1898 1:29 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers 2:01 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Jan. - 2 Feb. 1899 4:01 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers 1:31 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 25 Feb. - 15 Mar. 1899 6:21 Read by Rob Marland
To Frank Harris, early 1899 2:36 Read by Rob Marland
To Louis Wilkinson 1:12 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 21 Mar. 1899 4:00 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers 2:03 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 26 Mar. - 1 Apr. 1899 7:42 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 7 Apr. 1899 1:30 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Apr. 1899 1:21 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Mar. or Apr. 1899 1:55 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, May 1899 2:28 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 30 May. 1899 1:10 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1899 2:37 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 6 June 1899 (version 1) 1:59 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 6 June 1899 (version 2) 2:30 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross 1:14 Read by Rob Marland
To an unidentified correspondent (re: sale of Irish property) 0:51 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross 0:49 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, June 1899 1:54 Read by Rob Marland
To Frank Harris 0:57 Read by Rob Marland
To Leonard Smithers, 3 Oct. 1899 1:25 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 0:56 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Oct. 1899 1:08 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Aug. 1897 0:36 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 9 Oct. 1899 1:01 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 2 Jan. 1900 0:59 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Nov. 1900 2:58 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 2:42 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 16 Apr. 1900 (version 1) 8:35 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 16 Apr. 1900 (version 2) 8:16 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 5:02 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 1:39 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 27 Apr. 1900 4:29 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 14 May 1900 2:02 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 3:41 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 1:29 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, Aug. 1900 1:46 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 2:34 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1900 1:44 Read by Rob Marland
To Robert Ross, 1 Sept. 1900 2:21 Read by Rob Marland
To Frank Harris 0:46 Read by Rob Marland
To Frank Harris, 1900 4:15 Read by Rob Marland
Robert Ross to Oscar Wilde, 27 Nov. 1900 1:48 Read by Rob Marland