Folio 81 is a handwritten notebook page with no cutouts. Wilde leaves a blank after the word "Sonnets" on the tenth line, presumably to fill in later.

Folio 81 is a handwritten notebook page with no cutouts. Wilde leaves a blank after the word "Sonnets" on the tenth line, presumably to fill in later.  Kennerley's edition and, as a result, many subsuquent editions print "Sonnets XXXIII-LII, LXI, and CXXVII-CLII." See Ian Small's Oxford University Press Edition, Vol. 8, Complete Works, for an alternate interpretation.

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Rosenbach Manuscript of Oscar Wilde's extended "The Portrait of Mr W.H."
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