DOUGLAS LORD ALFRED: (1870-1945) English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. A.L.S., Alfred Douglas, four pages, 8vo, Shelley's Folly, Lewes, 4^th April 1916, to Mr. Calvert. Douglas proclaims 'You are the “limit”' and continues to explain 'I called in accordance with your own suggestion last Friday exactly at 1 o'clock. I left The Rossiad & a note for you & I called again at 1.45 and 2.30. Now you say you came in at 1.10 & “as there was no letter” from me you went out to lunch. How do you mean “no letter”? I left a letter in the office opposite. Where else was I to leave it, or did you expect me to sit on the stairs on the off chance of yr. coming in? It is most annoying as I came up on purpose to see you on business connected with The Rossiad', further writing 'Could you come down here next Sunday to talk it over. There is a train leaving Victoria at 11.15 arriving Lewes 12.39. I would send motor for you & you could lunch here & spend two or three hours & get back to London in time for dinner. Let me know if you can manage this. See Daily Express advt. day after tomorrow'. Two file holes to the right edge of the final page, only very slightly touching a few words of text, and with a few annotations etc., presumably in Calvert's hand, relating to the train times between London and Lewes. About VG

The Rossiad first appeared in 1916 and was Douglas's privately published poetic satire attacking Robert Ross (1869-1918) Canadian-British journalist, art critic and art dealer who was a devoted friend of Wilde and served as his literary executor.