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NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Arents Collection

MORSE'S STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS
American Lecture Tour 1882

FREQUENT EXPENSES
wine
papers
barber
postage
cable
carriage
cash
wine
laundry
messenger 25c-$3
stamps
porter
bar
tiffany
cigarettes

[these repeat a lot esp. wine! - seemed to live off the stuff]

OCCASIONAL EXPENSES
flowers
medicine
lemonade
oranges
tailor's bill
doctor's bill $15 San Francisco
telephone $1 salt lake city
stephen $2.65! San Fran.
Books
Cigars & papers
copy lecture

[inference - presumably would sit around reading them]

$20-90 per city
$2-10 per city on one-dayers

SPECIFIC EXPENSES
May 12 - Grand Hotel
After return from Newark
Carriages at Hotel $13.25

April 4 - Carriage Bill at Maces (sic) $21.50

May 18 - draft London lady Wilde

June 5 - books from England

BALANCE SHEET at June 15th
receipts to date $18,215.69
expenses $7,005.06
= 111,210.63
less $500 D'Oyly Carte
= net profit $10,710.63
this split 50.50 with carte

other ddts and a/c details

SUMMARY PAGE

DECEMBER DETAILS APPENDED

where did Sam Ward live?

QUIZ

In his third trial, Oscar Wilde was asked by the Solicitor-General: "Did you not take Charles Parker to the Savoy Hotel? What did Oscar reply?:

a. Yes. I did not.
b. No. I did take him there.
c. Yes, certainly.
d. No, certainly not.

What plan shape is the main cell block of Reading Gaol?

a. Cruciform
b. Square
c. Hollow rectangle
d. L-shaped

Lord Alfred Douglas wrote to his father: "I shall defend myself with..". What?

a. Honour
b. Right on my side
c. Increased resistance
d. A loaded revolver

As he interviewed Wilde in Montreal, a reporter for the Daily Star noted: "the ruins of…" What?

a. His future life
b. His previous reputation
c. St. Teresa's Church
d. A substantial-looking breakfast

In his book, 'Oscar Wilde; a present time appraisal', St. John Ervine says Frank Harris pursued women with what?

a. No regard for his honour
b. No regard for their honour
c. Mathematical precision
d. Red hair

"Forgive me, sweetheart! Trust me, you will find/My love one day deep in your life entwined." Who wrote these lines in a sonnet to his wife?

a. Oscar Wilde
b. Willie Wilde
c. Alfred Douglas
d. The Marquis of Queensbury

In 1921, Lord Alfred Douglas sued the newspaper Evening News for libel following the fact that they printed what?

a. That he was probably mad
b. That he was probably homosexual
c. That he shouldn't be alive
d. That he was already dead

Which one of the following words appears in The Importance of Being Earnest?

a. Anabolics
b. Anabaptists
c. Analeptics
d. Analgesics

In one of his letters, whom did Oscar Wilde call his "lily of lilies"?

a. Alfred Douglas
b. Constance Wilde
c. Lillie Langtry
d. Lillian Russell

Oscar Wilde passed through customs at New York at a building known either as Castle Garden or what other name?

a. Castle Lincoln
b. Castle Grant
c. Castle Ford
d. Castle Clinton