Ceremonies of bravery: Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair

'The greatest friendship of my life'

'Sadness, disappointment, upset, & weariness'

'The girl with the foghorn voice'

'He has been mad the last 3 years'

'Letters from two idiots to a lunatic'

'The most better experience of a bitter life'

'The Dreyfus-case Paris cannot be figured by the Paris of today'

'Paradoxes are always dangerous things'

'No one should know such an infamous person as Bosie'

'He was a great genius. His familiar talk was golden'

Appendix: Carlos Blacker's 'private and confidential' memorandum on the Dreyfus Affair.