![]() ![]() ![]() Friends who sometimes quarreled, but friends none the less. During the period in question they were friends. I don’t believe this is true for various reasons that I lay out in Oscar’s Ghost. Because Ross and Douglas spent years locked in furious conflict, people have naturally assumed that they were always rivals. Over the years a certain mythology has been built up over the Ross-Douglas-Wilde triangle. Ross and Wilde must have had conversations about the manuscript, but we’ll never know what they discussed. This never happened, and in later litigation Ross claimed that Wilde gave him verbal instructions that contradicted what he had written earlier. Wilde gave written instructions to Robert Ross, not yet his literary executor, to print up a typescript that he could work from and then to send the original to its adressee, Douglas. ![]() One of the great mysteries surrounding Oscar Wilde’s prison manuscript, posthumously titled De Profundis, is why the original hand-written version was never sent to Lord Alfred Douglas. ![]()
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