A picture of Oscar Wilde

In his words: All of these editions ... relied heavily on the scholarly apparatus of copious footnotes to put the letters in context and I feel that the time has now come to make my grandfather's correspondence accessible to a broader public with only a minimum of editorial intervention. The next set of letters, written to fellow undergraduates Reginald ("Kitten") Harding and William ("Bouncer") Ward, is campy to the point of silliness, and the reader senses an underlying gayness, but some of the terms and allusions require expli- cation.