In 1895, Lord Alfred Douglas wrote an article for the Mercure de France in defense of his incarcerated friend, Oscar Wilde. The piece was nothing if not outspoken and included some love-letters from Wilde to Douglas. The article was withdrawn and never published. Its original manuscript was lost, but a manuscript copy of the French translation was found, retranslated into English, and published here for the first time, along with Douglas's reminiscences of Wilde's last years in Paris