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One day, Sickerte1 said to me, ‘Your caricatures of dear Will2 and of Oscar Wilde were so deadly. I know how Oscar feels about them — he can’t bear them — but doesn’t Will resent them? Isn’t he angry?’ ‘More frightened,’ I said to Walter, ‘than angry.’ But I loved Will; he was so kind. No one took such trouble over young artists, to help them; there was nothing he wouldn’t do. But Oscar—’
Extracted from S. N. Behrman, Conversation with Max (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960) pp. 66–7. Editor’s title.
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Beerbohm, M. (1979). A Rumour. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03926-5_4
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