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Oscar Wilde

St. Patrick’s Day may have passed, but here at Special Collections we are always finding a good reason to celebrate Irish roots. Today we are focusing on Irish poet, playwright, and writer Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde. Oscar Wilde was … Continue reading

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Merlin Holland

On April 12, 2011, Merlin Holland returned to the University of Tulsa as the distinguished guest speaker for the McFarlin Fellows dinner. During this event, Mr. Holland surprised the university by gifting Special Collections with a facsimile of Oscar Wilde’s … Continue reading

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New Acquisition

The department’s newest acquisition is three wood engraved illustrations for Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis by Peter Forster (Coll. No. 2011.032). The signed and numbered prints were made from the woodblocks used in Forster’s 1991 Folio Society edition of De Profundis, … Continue reading

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New Acquisition

During Merlin Holland’s recent visit, the author presented the library with a copy of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, published by the British Library in 2000. This facsimile edition was published on the one-hundredth anniversary of Wilde’s death. The library’s special … Continue reading

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