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[Circa September 1880] Keats House, Tite Street

Dear Madam, Permit me to send you a copy of a new and original drama I have written: the character of the heroine is drawn in all those varying moods and notes of passion which you can so well touch. Your great fame, which has long ago passed over here, and a suggestion of my friend Mr Dion Boucicault have emboldened me, being a very young writer, to send you my first play; and if you do not think it suitable for dramatic representation in America, at any rate accept it as a homage to your genius.

On account of its avowedly republican sentiments I have not been able to get permission to have it brought out here, but with you there is more freedom, and though democracy is the note through which the play is expressed, yet the tragedy is an entirely human one. Believe me, Madam, your obedient servant

OSCAR WILDE

In case you approve of the play I shall be so happy to correspond on the subject.