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[Circa 22 January 1884] Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield

My dear Lil, I am really delighted at your immense success; the most brilliant telegrams have appeared in the papers here on your performance in Peril. You have done what no other artist of our day has done, invaded America a second time and carried off new victories. But then, you are made for victory. It has always flashed in your eyes, and rung in your voice.

And so, I write half to tell you how glad I am at your triumphs—you, ‘Venus Victrix of our age’!—and the other half to tell you that I am going to be married to a beautiful young girl called Constance Lloyd, a grave, slight, violet-eyed little Artemis, with great coils of heavy brown hair which make her flower-like head droop like a flower, and wonderful ivory hands which draw music from the piano so sweet that the birds stop singing to listen to her. We are to be married in April. I hope so much that you will be over then. I am so anxious for you to know and to like her.

I am hard at work lecturing and getting quite rich, tho’ it is horrid being so much away from her, but we telegraph to each other twice a day, and I rush back suddenly from the uttermost parts of the earth to see her for an hour, and do all the foolish things which wise lovers do.

Will you write and wish me happiness, and believe me, ever your devoted and affectionate friend

OSCAR WILDE

Waldo Story was an American sculptor whose family lived in Italy whom Wilde most probably met through James Whistler.