The February 7, 2010, edition of the San Francisco Chronicle ran some excerpts from the new book Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews.  The following was originally published in the SF Chronicle in 1882:

“‘I like your names here so much,’ said the poet, after he had fed his soul to satiety on the purple of Tamalpais and the blue of the sky over San Rafael. ‘How delightful it is to hear such names as San Antonio, San Pablo and San Lorenzo, after one’s ears have been horribly shocked by such terms as Griggsville. . . . In such a name as Griggsville there is nothing but utterly, unmitigated, and offensive vulgarity, ugh,’ and again the aesthete’s velvet coat shook with the violence of his emotions.”