Abstract
ORD ALFRED DOUGLAS' claim that an anonymously addressed sonL_ net written by Lionel Johnson was intended for Oscar Wilde is corroborated by evidence from a letter written by Louise Imogen Guiney, American poet, essayist, and critic, and located in the Guiney collection at Immaculate Heart College. The letter, written during the course of the Ransome libel trial' in April, 1913, is addressed to Elkin Matthews, co-founder with John Lane of the Bodley Head Press, and publisher of much of Johnson's work including Some Poems of Lionel Johnson, edited by Miss Guiney in I9I2. Miss Guiney writes from Cropredy, Leamington:
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