Confessions of Oscar Wilde

In 2017, an insightful questionnaire with confessions completed by the playwright Oscar Wilde in 1877, on the cusp of finding fame, sold for £47,880 in Sotheby’s sale from the collection of acclaimed actor Steven Berkoff. Wilde was in his early twenties when he contributed to the album of ‘Mental Photographs’ in 1877.

Sources:

Antique Collecting Magazine, "Oscar Wilde questionnaire sells", https://antique-collecting.co.uk/2020/08/07/oscar-wilde-questionnaire-sells-at-sothebys/

Sotheby's, "WILDE Confessions of Tastes", https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/books-and-manuscripts-a-summer-miscellany/wilde-confessions-of-tastes-habits-and-convictions

"Oscar Wilde's Missing Ring Returned to Magdalen", https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/news/wildes-ring-returned/

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