vy coat made sense in the American if not the English climate (Ellmann 154). As to lecturing Wilde knew he had no talent for oratory. His friend Hermann Vezin gave him elocution lessons, " I want a natural style, with a touch of affectation." "Well, said Vezi, "and haven't you got that, Oscar?"(Ellmann 155) Wilde had yet prepared a lecture and was planning to write his lecture on his departure on Arizona, which was to embark on December 24, 1881. But by the time the ship docked on January 2 he did not have it ready (Ellmann 158)
             When Arizona docked in New York, the reporters where they are to catch his first words. On his way through customs Wild pronounced, "I have nothing to declare, except my genius" (Cevasco 15). Wilde
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