WILDE LETTER
Wilde wrote from the Withnell Hotel to his manager about his tour schedule. The letter is on hotel stationery and survives at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Snippet: Holland, Merlin and and Hart-Davis, Rupert, Eds. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, London: Fourth Estate; New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
Accommodation
Withnell Building
Southwest corner of 15th and Harney Streets, Omaha, NE
Built: 1868 with subsequent various use:
1868-c.1878:
Government Army offices (Department of the Platte)
pictured in 1876
c.1878-October 1882:
Withnell House (Kitchen Brothers)
1884-c. 1890:
Omaha Daily Herald newspaper offices (Gibson, Miller & Richardson)
1887:
Newspaper and building purchased by John A. McShane
1890:
Demolished (replaced by Creighton Hall, and later the Orpheum)
