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Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas from his father Lord Queensberry, c1890s. '24 James Street, Buckingham Gate, Thursday 24th. My dear Bosie, I dare say a Tip will be acceptable so I send you a cheque for [£20?] as I have some spare cash. Have not heard of or from you for ever so long, don't be so foolish as to think any more about the [?] of my speaking to you about your...[handwriting]'. Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, abhorred his son's relationship with Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde, and set out to humiliate Wilde, publicly accusing him of homosexuality. Wilde sued Queensberry for criminal libel, but some intimate notes were found and Wilde was later imprisoned, and died in 1900. From "Oscar Wilde and Myself" by Lord Alfred Douglas. [London, 1914].