Wilde love letters for sale

A NEWLY publicised collection of love letters written by Oscar Wilde to a magazine editor are expected to fetch £10,000 (€12,000) when they come up for auction in England next Friday.

The Irish poet wrote the letters to fellow editor Alsager Vian of the Court & Society Review while he himself was writing for and editing Society Magazines in London.

While the four pages are undated, the postmark on the envelope shows they were written in 1887, according to auctioneers, Bamfords of Derby.