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Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas from his father Lord Queensberry, c1890s. '...I came back to Paris where I stopped for about ten days. [& perhaps?] I am going back for a fortnight as I have been taking some lessons in French [?] where [?] I am rather thinking of taking another [?] test & if I do so shall start about...'. 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].