I am only too pleased that any little phrase of mine will find a
place in any title you may give to any story. Use it, of course.
I am sure your story will be delightful. Hoping to see you soon.
Your friend,
OSCAR WILDE.
My story written and published, I despatched it cap in hand
to carry my acknowledgments to the teller of supremely lovely
fairy stories--imagined, not invented--from whom my own drab and
homespun-clad little tale had impudently “lifted” a beautiful
sub-title to wear, a borrowed plume, in its otherwise undecorated hat.
Here is Wilde’s very characteristic reply. It needs no signature to
indicate the writer. No other author of the day would have written
thus graciously and thus generously:
16 TITE STREET,
CHELSEA, S.W.