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‘There are in Texas two spots which gave me infinite pleasure. These are Galveston and San Antonio.1 Galveston, set like a jewel in a crystal sea, was beautiful. Its fine beach, its shady avenues of oleander, and its delightful sea breezes were something to be enjoyed. It was in San Antonio, however, that I found more to please me in the beautiful ruins of the old Spanish mission churches and convents, and in the relics of Spanish manners and customs impressed upon the people and the architecture of the city. America is so full of youthful vigor and vitality that one sees those relics of a past age in the midst of so much that is new with a positive sensation of surprise and pleasure. Those old Spanish churches, with their picturesque remains of tower and dome, and their handsome carved stonework, standing amid the verdure and sunshine of a Texas prairie, gave me a thrill of strange pleasure.’
Daily Picayune (25 June 1882).
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Mikhail, E.H. (1979). Oscar Wilde Talks of Texas. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_34
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