Maggs Bros.

The menu for the Sette’s Japan Night. In fine condition. See Ellen Crowell’s excellent essay on this evening, published in the TLS. Oscar Wilde was present, as was Richard le Gallienne, then a candidate for membership - by Crowell’s account Edward Heron-Allen was agitating that evening against le Gallienne by spreading rumours about the latter’s sexual orientation, which later produced a printed retaliation by le Gallienne. It would have been a peculiar time and place to make the accusations, since Wilde himself was Heron-Allen’s guest that evening, and although Le Gallienne seems to have gone through a short period of at least flirting with men, including Wilde and A.T. Bartholomew, he was fundamentally enthusiastically heterosexual.