Wilde Quotation

[Fred Shapiro]

I am again in a place without access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
Is anyone willing to search PQHN to see whether there are any pre-1916
occurrences of Oscar Wilde's quotation, "I have nothing to declare except
my genius"?

Fred Shapiro


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
  Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press,
Yale Law School                             forthcoming
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------