Robert Harborough Sherard: letters to Douglas William Gray

This is a collection of letters, transcripts and other papers kept by Douglas Gray of Perth, all relating to Sherard and his writings on his friendship with Oscar Wilde in Paris in the 1890s and his aggressive defence of Wilde by means of various publications.

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Douglas Gray's collection of letters from Sherard and his wife Muriel came into the possession of Ian Laurenson of Monash University, by whom they were presented to Cambridge University Library in 1980.

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

One acid-free folder

The principal collection of Robert Harborough Sherard's papers is in the Special Collections, University Library, University of Reading MS.1047; see http://www.reading.ac.uk/adlib/special_archives/110014311. There is another collection of Sherard material at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of the University of California, Los Angeles; see http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6x0nf2tm/dsc/

Kevin H.F. O'Brien "Robert Sherard: friend of Oscar Wilde", 'English Literature in Transition 1880-1920', 28 (1985): pp.3-29