According to Alan Gribben's _Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction_, Mark Twain's essay "The Walt Whitman Controversy" classes Wilde's poetry with the "new bad books" of Whitman and Swinburne; he owns none of these works (see file DV36, Mark Twain Papers). In her book _My Father Mark Twain_ Clara Clemens writes about the family crossing paths with Wilde in Bad Nauheim (p. 113) in a dining room. To her knowledge, that was the first time Clemens and Wilde had met. Barb