a historical detective story
The first task when examining Wilde’s tour of America is to establish the location for his lectures.
In this case, it is the lecture which took place on April 24, 1882 in the city ofLincoln, the state capital of Nebraska.
The few contemporary newspaper reports that exist of Wilde’s lecture in Lincoln name ‘City Hall’ as the venue, although one report cites the (lower case) ‘opera house’. Neither of these is entirely wrong, but neither alone allows us to be definitively correct.
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