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Lecture Tour of America 1882

Writing and Research on Oscar Wilde

Augusta

Georgia


Opera House

Thursday, July 6, 1882


The Decorative Arts

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Verification

Newspaper reports

Chronicle and Constitutionalist, Augusta, GA), July 7, 1882


Newspaper advertisement

Chronicle and Constitutionalist (Augusta, GA), July 6, 1882

Accommodation

No record of Wilde's accommodation in Augusta.

Venue

Opera House *

826-828 Broad Street, Augusta, GA


Original: Concert Hall

Renovated: 1869

Opened: November 3, 1869 (Isadore P. Girardey)

Seating capacity: 900-1000

Destroyed (fire): February 12, 1887


* Not the Grand Opera House which stood on Greene Street.

Ephemera

Letter from Wilde written on the day of his lecture in Augusta.


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