British writer (1870-1945) who first came to prominence in the 1890s as the young intimate companion of Oscar Wilde. After Douglas' father, Lord Queensbury, accused Wilde of being a 'somdomite' [sic], Wilde filed the libel lawsuit that led to his own conviction and two-year prison term. ALS signed “Alfred Douglas,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, Shelley's Folly letterhead, April 4, 1916. Handwritten letter to Mr. Calvert, in part: "You are the 'limit.' I called in accordance with your own suggestion last Friday exactly at 1 o'clock. I left The Rossiad & a note for you & I called again at 1.45 & 2.30. Now you say you came in at 1.10 & 'as there was no letter' from me you went out to lunch. How do you mean 'no letter'? I left a letter in the office opposite. Where else was I to have it, or did you expect me to sit on the stairs on the off chance of yr coming in? It is most annoying as I came up on purpose to see you on business connected with the Rossiad. Could you come down here next Sunday to talk it over. There is a train leaving Victoria at 11.15 arriving Lewes 12.39. I would send motor for you & you could lunch here & spend two or three hours." In fine condition. Written and circulated in 1916, The Rossiad was Douglas's polemic directed against art critic and dealer Robert Ross, a friend and literary executor of Wilde. In the wake of Wilde's death, Ross was vindictively pursued by Lord Alfred Douglas, who repeatedly attempted to have him arrested and tried for homosexual conduct.
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