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Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas from his father Lord Queensberry, c1890s. '...the 15th April as some friends of mine are then going to America & I should have their company & then go on to [?] to look after some property I have there. Which is [getting?] on well. If I do that should go on perhaps to Japan & come home by India. Where I could go & look up Percy up. Your affect. father, Queensberry'. 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].