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class="maroonsmallcaps">Report</span></p> <p class="bodynormalB18 f-lp"><strong><em>The Inter Ocean </em>(Chicago, IL), March 25, 1882, p.9<br><br> </strong><img id="verify" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/verify.png" alt="verify" title=""></p> </article> <article id="lecture-tour-article-2" class="f-cf f-ms"><h2 class="bodyupper f-fp">verification reported</h2> <p class="Quotation"><span class="maroonsmallcaps">book</span></p> <p class="bodynormalB18"><strong>Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith, <em>Oscar Wilde Discovers America: 1882</em>, 1936, pp. 226-7</strong></p> <p class="bodynormalB18">"a reporter from the <em>Sioux City Journal</em> called at his room at the Hubbard House"</p> <p class="bodynormalB18">"Wilde spoke on March 20th at the Academy of Music"</p> <p class="bodynormalB18">L&S's account is interspersed with verbatim quotes taken from the <em>Sioux City Journal</em> [1,2], and the references to Wilde's lecture venue and accommodation <span class="Balthazar">clearly read as </span>taken from the same source. Thus <span class="Balthazar">the verification</span> <span class="Balthazar">can be</span> deemed as the reporting of a <a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/about/sources.html">primary source</a>.</p> <p class="bodynormalB18">[1] The <em>Journal</em> of March 20 reported Wilde in interview as follows:</p> <p class="bodysmallB14">"His demeanor is ladylike. He occasionally moistened his wrists in a preoccupied way with perfume from a tiny flat vial. His large, liquid eyes rolled upwards at times as he became interested, something as a schoolgirl's when she speaks to an intimate friend of her latest love affair."</p> <p class="bodynormalB18">[2] The <em>Journal</em> of March 21 reported Wilde's <span class="Balthazar">lecture</span> as follows:</p> <p class="bodysmallB14">"spiritless namby-pamby nondescript"</p> <p class="bodysmallB14">"a caricature on robust manhood"</p> <p class="f-lp">It can be concluded that for one midwest newspaper at least, Wilde's effete manner, whether natural or affected, was approximately a century ahead of its time.</p> </article> </section> <section id="lecture-section-right" class="f-ms"><article id="lecture-tour-article-5" class="f-cf f-ms"><h2 class="bodyupper f-fp">historical note</h2> <p><strong>Academy of Music<br></strong>Pierce and Douglas Streets on the south side of Fourth Street, Sioux City, IA</p> <p><img id="academyGCSearle1886SiouxCityIowa" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/academygcsearle1886siouxcityiowa.jpeg" alt="academyGCSearle1886SiouxCityIowa" title=""></p> <p class="f-lp">Built: 1870 (H.O. Ball)<br>Constructed by: Sharp and Beck<br>Seating: 800<br>Demolished: 1910</p> </article> <article id="lecture-tour-article-6" class="f-cf f-ms"><h2 class="style2 f-fp">accommodation</h2> <p><strong>Hubbard House<br></strong>Northeast corner of 4th and Pierce Streets, Sioux City, IA</p> <p><img id="hubbard" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/hubbard.jpeg" alt="hubbard" title=""></p> <p class="f-lp">Built: 1870<br>Renamed: Hotel Booge, 1887<br>Renamed: Hotel Mondamin, 1895<br>Destroyed (fire): 1912<br>Replaced by: Martin Hotel on the same site (extant as an apartment building)</p> </article> <article id="lecture-tour-article-7" class="f-cf f-ms"><p class="caption f-fp f-lp"><img id="siouxcityTheTopekaDailyCapitalTopekaKansas21April1882Page8" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/siouxcitythetopekadailycapitaltopekakansas21a.jpeg" alt="siouxcityTheTopekaDailyCapitalTopekaKansas21April1882Page8" title=""><br><em>The Topeka Daily Capital</em>, April 21, 1882, 8</p> </article> </section> </div> <section id="wide-section-top" class="f-cf f-ms"><article id="oscar-wilde-article-A1" class="f-cf"><h2 class="bodyupper f-fp"><img id="canyons" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/canyons.jpeg" alt="canyons" title="">Canyons and Coyotes</h2> <p>Oscar Wilde wrote this from Sioux City, IA.</p> <p class="bodysmallB14"> </p> <p class="bodysmallB14"> </p> <p class="bodysmallB14"> </p> <p class="bodysmallB14 f-lp"><strong>Source</strong>: <em>The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde</em> edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, London: Fourth Estate; New York: Henry Holt, 2000.</p> </article> </section> </div> <footer id="footer" class="f-cf f-ms"><div id="recommendedr-reading" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp f-lp">Recommended reading</p> </div> <div id="links" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp f-lp">Internal Links</p> </div> <div id="links1" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp f-lp">External Links</p> </div> <div id="oscar-wilde-on-dress1" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp f-lp"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeondress.com/" target="_blank"><img id="Tilton1188798576X2" class="f-ms" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/tilton1188798576x2.jpeg" alt="Tilton1188798576X2" title=""></a></p> </div> <div id="oscar-wilde-on-dress2" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp f-lp"><a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/works/philosophy-of-dress.html"><img id="CoverDraft" class="f-ms" src="/web/20170920094830im_/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/Resources/coverdraft1.jpeg" alt="CoverDraft" title=""></a></p> </div> <nav id="internal" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp"><a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/about/john-cooper-interview.html">interview</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.prlog.org/11989754-oscar-wilde-in-america-the-online-archive.html" target="_blank">press release</a></p> <p><a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/about/sources.html">sources</a></p> <p><a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/about/credits.html">credits</a></p> <p><a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/about/john-cooper.html">contact</a></p> <p class="bodysmallB14 f-lp"> 漏 owia 2016</p> </nav> <nav id="external" class="f-ms"><p class="f-fp"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeondress.com/" target="_blank">oscar wilde on dress</a></p> <p><a href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/about/walking-tour.html">ny walking tour</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://oscarwildeinamerica.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://oscar-wilde-in-america.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildesociety.com/" target="_blank">oscar wilde society</a></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.bl.uk/people/oscar-wilde" target="_blank">Oscar Wilde at The British Library (Recommended)</a></p> <p class="f-lp"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.csmprofessional.com/" target="_blank">cooper design (web site)</a></p> </nav> </footer> <div id="oscar-bottom-line" class="f-cf f-ms"></div> <map id="map1" name="map1"> <area alt="" coords="667,1,804,13" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.csmprofessional.com/" target="_blank"> <area alt="web site by cooper design" coords="0,0,815,17" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170920094830/http://www.csmprofessional.com/"> </map> <map id="map2" name="map2"> <area alt="Oscar Wilde In America" coords="0,1,1000,36" href="/web/20170920094830/http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/index.html"> </map> </div> </form> </body> </html>