Fifty or sixty Harvard students came to his lecture dressed to caricature him in "swallow tail coats, knee breeches, flowing wigs and green ties.

They all wore large lilies in their buttonholes and each man carried a huge sunflower as he limped along." That evening Oscar appeared in ordinary dress and went on with his lecture as if he had not noticed the rudeness.

The chief Boston paper gave him due credit: "Everyone who witnessed the scene on Tuesday evening must feel about it very much as we do, and those who came to scoff, if they did not exactly remain to pray, at least left the Music Hall with feelings of cordial liking, and, perhaps to their own surprise, of respect for Oscar Wilde."[7] As he travelled west to Louisville and Omaha his popularity dwined and dwindled.

Still he persevered and after leaving the States visited Canada, reaching Halifax in the autumn.
One incident must find a place here.

On September 6 he sent L80 to Lady Wilde.