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[November 1881] 9 Charles Street, Grosvenor Square, London

My dear Curzon, You are a brick! and I thank you very much for your chivalrous defence of me in the Union. So much of what is best in England passes through Oxford that I should have been sorry to think that discourtesy so gross and narrow-mindedness so evil could have been suffered to exist without some voice of scorn being raised against them.

Our sweet city with its dreaming towers must not be given entirely over to the Philistines. They have Gath and Ekron and Ashdod and many other cities of dirt and dread and despair, and we must not yield them the quiet cloister of Magdalen to brawl in, or the windows of Merton to peer from.

I hope you will come and see me in town. I have left my house at Chelsea but will be always delighted to see you, for, in spite of the story of Aristides, I have not got tired yet of hearing Rennell Rodd call you perfect.

I send you a bill of my first attack on Tyranny. I wish you could get it posted in the ‘High’, but perhaps I bother you? Very truly yours

OSCAR WILDE