[1][2][3] He also published in Paris and translated pornographic works from French to English and vice versa.
[4][5] In 1899, he was charged with distributing indecent material and was sentenced to nine months in Wormwood Scrubs.
[7] Hirsch knew Oscar Wilde, and claimed to have sold him various works of erotica, including The Sins of the Cities of the Plain in 1890.
Hirsch recounts three further repetitions of this "identical ceremony" before the package made its way back to Wilde.
Hirsch defied the strict instructions not to open the package while it was in his care, and claims that it was written in several different hands, which lends further support to his supposition that it was authored in "round robin" style by a small group of Wilde's intimate associates.