Lord Alfred Douglas Douglas's feelings towards Wilde began to soften. He wrote in "Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" that "Sometimes a sin is also a crime (for example, a murder or theft), but this is not the case with homosexuality, any more than with adultery". Throughout the 1930s and until his death Douglas maintained correspondence with many people, including Marie Stopes and George Bernard Shaw. Anthony Wynn wrote the play "Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship" based on the letters between Shaw and Douglas. One of Douglas's final public appearances was his well-received lecture to the Royal Society of Literature on 2
David Douglas, Lord Reston trip to visit Lord Kinnaird in his recently completed house, Rossie Priory. On Thursday 27 April he was buried in the burial ground of his father's cousin Adam Smith in Canongate Kirkyard on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. In 1805 he married Elizabeth Craigie, his first cousin, and they had four children: 1. Elizabeth Craigie Douglas (1808–22) 2. Cecilia Margaret Douglas (1813–98), who married the Rev. William Bruce Cunningham; amongst their children were Robert Oliver Cunningham and David Douglas Cunningham 3. Adam Smith Douglas (1816–38) 4. David Anne Douglas (1819–79), who married the Rev James Bannerman, whose son was Rev