[Ads-l] Request help accessing Ottawa Citizen in 1882 to check Oscar Wilde quotation

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Great work, Stephen. Thanks for your superb efforts.

Here is some progress. The pertinent issue of "The Daily News" of
Kingston, Canada is available via the database at
NewspaperArchive.com. The page scans are somewhat blurry, but it is
possible to identify some comments Oscar Wilde made about pollution. I
could not find the comment about children in this article.

Date: May 23, 1882
Newspaper: The Daily News
Newspaper Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Article: Oscar Wilde On Decorative Art: A Thin Audience--Eloquent Discourse
Quote Page 2, Column 2
Database: NewspaperArchive.com

[Begin excerpt - double check for typos]
He had recently been in Ottawa, and had seen a noble river choked with
sawdust. This he considered an outrage, as no one had a right to
pollute the air or the water, which are the common inheritance of all.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 7:19 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
>
> I didn't find this in the Duke U version of ProQuest.
> But via Dissertations, Kevin O'Brien, An Edition of Oscar Wilde's American Lectures, PhD Notre Dame 1973 gives
>
> "Oscar Wilde on Decorative Art," Daily News (Kingston Ont.) May 23, 1882
>
> and
> "Art Decoration," Toronto Daily Mail, May 26, 1882
>
> for this quotation.
>
> Stephen G
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> Subject: Request help accessing Ottawa Citizen in 1882 to check Oscar Wilde quotation
>
> There is supposed to be an article in the "Ottawa Citizen" about a
> speech delivered by Oscar Wilde while he was in Ottawa in 1882.
> Further below is an excerpt from a journal article about this topic.
> The footnote within the journal article states that the news report in
> the "Ottawa Citizen" appeared on May 17, 1882 and was titled "Oscar
> Wilde - Lecture in the Grand Opera House".
>
> The ProQuest database for "Ottawa Citizen" has coverage from 1845 to
> 2010. If you have access to this database would you be willing to
> search for some distinctive phrases such as "Wilde goes too far when",
> "No one has a right to pollute", "should leave them to our children"
> and download the PDF for me?
>
> Here is the excerpt from the journal article:
>
> [Begin excerpt from Nov. 2016 article by Randy Boswell in Social History]
> “This is an outrage,” Wilde exclaimed. “No one has a right to pollute
> the air and water, which are the common inheritance of all; we should
> leave them to our children as we have received them.” The Ottawa
> Citizen responded the next day with an acknowledgement that the
> sawdust problem “has long been admitted,” and that smoke-filled skies
> “might also be a pity,” but insisted that “Mr. Wilde goes too far when
> he advocates that no man should be allowed to carry on a business
> which produces either of these results.”
> [End excerpt from article by Randy Boswell in Social History]
>
> [Begin footnote from article by Randy Boswell]
> “Oscar Wilde—Lecture in the Grand Opera House,” Ottawa Citizen, May
> 17, 1882, p. 1. Kevin O’Brien, Oscar Wilde in Canada: An Apostle for
> the Arts, Toronto: Personal Library Publishers, 1982, p. 79.
> [End footnote from article by Randy Boswell]
>
> Garson O'Toole
> QuoteInvestigator.com
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