The San Francisco Examiner - Monday, June 3, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
AS WILDE APPEARED TO QUEENSBERRY.
Recently an interview with the Marquis of Queensberry appeared in the New York Herald in which he was quoted as follows: "I was struck with a certain resemblance lurking in this picture," and the Marquis held up to my view a drawing from one of the weekly illustrated papers, depicting a huge iguanodon, as it is supposed to have appeared to its prehistoric contemporaries. "I sent a copy of it to my son's wife, indorsing it, as far as I remember, as a possible ancestor of Oscar Wilde."
"As to the letter which he accused me of sending to his wife, that was on my part in the nature of a joke. I was struck with a certain resemblance lurking in this picture," and the Marquis held up to my view a drawing from one of the weekly illustrated papers depicting a huge iguanodon as it is supposed to have appeared to its prehistoric contemporaries. There was a touch of the humorous about the plelocene beast's attitude, and the Marquis could not refrain from chuckling as he drew my attention to it.
The sending of this picture was constructed by Queensberry’s son as an insult, and it was in the effort to resent it that he received from his sire a neatly-bestowed black eye, closing that organ and the episode.