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Original paragraph in
Evening Herald - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
Evening Herald - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
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Quebec Morning Chronicle - Thursday, May 30, 1895
Quebec Morning Chronicle - Thursday, May 30, 1895
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I met Wilde in his youth, says the "Evening News" representative, after he made his first memorable visit to America. His [...] then was
eccentric, but a justification of his doctrines. No man was more perfectly, more beautifully dressed. There was not a tinge [...] the colours of his
apparel but completed [...] harmony. His long hair became him; his face was an oval, youthful, fresh, and bright with intelligence. How gross it has
become!
Again I met him, sat with him at dinner in the library of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. Mr Henry Irving and the
veteran journalist, Mr George Augustus Sala were also there. The assembly was a brilliant one. The occasion was unveiling of Lord Ronald Gower’s statue of
Shakespeare, the beautiful work of art which stands on the green at the front of the theatre facing the winding Avon and the church [...] hidden in the
foliage. Irving and Sala made brilliant speeches on the poet and the theatre but when Wilde rose, again superbly but more rationally attired, and
delivered an address of sculpture, the assembly of artists, scholars, and historians listened with suppressed breathing, and bowed their heads in
acknowledgment of the man's superiority, Wilde was in his zenith then.
The Oscar Wilde who came into the witness box at the Old Bailey to support his charge against the Marquis of Queonsberry was not the same
man. Though still precise in his attire and still brilliant in wit, his features had acquired a coarseness that had robbed the man of his intellectual
impressiveness.
When Wilde leaned on the rail of the dock on Saturday and heard the jury, in answer to the various charges, six times repeat the word
"Guilty!" nothing more appalling than the hopelessness which crept into his sunken eyes have I ever looked upon. The lines visibly multiplied in the man's
face, his huge body seemed to shrink into littleness, and as the jailer touched him on the shoulder he reeled in bewilderment.
During the first month, while on the wheel, Wild will sleep on the plank bed, a bare board raised a few inches above the floor and
supplied with sheets—clean sheets are given to each prisoner—two rugs, and a coverlet, but no mattress. His diet will be—Cocoa and bread for breakfast at
7 30. Dinner, at noon, one day bacon and beans, another soup, another cold Australian meal and another brown flour suet puddings, with the last three
repeated twice a week, potatoes with every dinner; and tea at 5 30.
After he has finished his spell on the wheel he will be put to some industrial employment [...] not play-writing, although it might be
the most profitable for the prison department, but probably post bag-making, tailoring, or merely picking of oakum. He will exercise in the open air daily
for an hour, walking with the rest of his ward in Indian file, no talking allowed.
After he has finished his spell on the wheel he will be put to some industrial employment — not play-writing, although it might be most
profitable for the prison department, but probably post-bag making, tailoring or merely picking oakum.
He will be allowed no communication with outside, except by special permission, until he has completed three months of his sentence and
then he may write and receive one letter, and he visited for twenty minutes by three friends, but in the visiting cell, separated from them by wire blinds
and in the presence of a warder. After the first letter and visit the same may be repeated at intervals of three months. But all these concessions are
dependent first upon industry aud next upon conduct. The pla[...] bed cannot be escaped from until a certain number of marks, awarded only for work done
and in the same way letters and visits are accorded. Wildo will attend chapel every morning at 9 a m, and twice on Sundays. He will be visited, if he
wishes it, by the chaplain and as often as he likes also daily by the Governor or Deputy Governor.
In the "Nineteenth Century" Wilde once wrote:— "The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of
no value whatever. After all even in prison a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be not troubled. He can be at peace."