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Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas from his father Lord Queensberry, c1890s. '...handwriting, If you take trouble you can improve it very much & it is a very important thing writing a good hand & also [shows?] very much the state one is in. I have been to Monte Carlo & won some money & then lost it all again, but did not do any harm & as it was terribly cold there [I came back to Paris...]'. 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].