Yeah, the new book (Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years) quotes him as going on about how he and Esterhazy were both criminals and being epigrammatic about innocence and so on. Gah. But, it also suggests, on the basis of his contemporary letters to Blacker and Constance Wilde, that Wilde promised to tell Blacker what Esterhazy had said at dinner, and that he was probably drunk when he told Strong about Blacker's information from Panizzardi about the exculpatory evidence. And this author also points out that Chris Healy, who was "a Dreyfusard," was with Strong and Wilde and took the news to Zola and later said Wilde "suggested the clue which enabled Zola to successfully defend Dreyfus," and another friend of Zola's probably wrote the article which appeared in the French press days before Strong's article. And Blacker came at once when Wilde got news Constance was dead, and helped him very generously with money. -- Not that any of that excuses Wilde's behaviour or things he said, but it does suggest the situation is a little more complex. At the very least if Wilde hadn't told the secret to Strong and Healy, Lettre d’un Diplomate might never even have been written, which makes me kind of dizzy.