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[Circa 3 June 1883] 9 Charles Street, Grosvenor Square

Dear Mrs Millais, Here are the Lily’s views on American women. Very sweetly expressed, I think they are, and a lesson in courtesy to a nation which has been discourteous to her. I hope they will interest you. They are really very clever, but then all beautiful women are more or less verbally inspired. Believe me most truly yours

OSCAR WILDE

“Violet Fane’ was the pseudonym of the poet and novelist Mary Singleton, whose acquaintance Wilde had probably made through Lillie Langtry in 1880. She later became one of his favourite contributors when he edited the Woman’s World magazine. The Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Blunt had been published anonymously in 1881.