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“Temporary List of uncatalogued Gosse material”
1976
Loose MS pages; typescript with ink amendments; 2pp; June 1976
“School themes 1827”
1923
Calligraphic MS; hardcover book in brown paper wrapping; title in black pen; inscribed on the title page: “Themes or Pieces of Juvenile Composition by P.H. Gosse at Blandford from Jan. 1823 to Xmas ...
“Letters from Jamaica”, 1844-45
1844-1845
Individually addressed and dated MS letters; bound in blue leather with the author, date, and title in golden embossed letters on the spine.
Handwritten note of marriage between P.H. Gosse and Emily Bowes,
1848
22 Nov 1848. On a piece of cardboard that seems to have been part of a book.
1849- Bound Hardcover Diary
1849-1855
Brown, with brass lock; about 15 entries (starting from the front and from the back) dated 1849-1855, including personal prayers; inscribed on the front page: “Diary kept by my mother from the year ...
“A History of British Ferns”
1860
Bound MS exercises in Natural History by the 11-year old E.W. Gosse, complete with watercolours of ferns; dated 1860; four exercise books bound together; hardcover, spine bound in dark blue leather, ...
Envelope inscribed “From my seventeenth year”,
1866
containing: a MS covering note “I have come across ...”, 1 p, dated 4 July 1909 b MS poem, “A Summer Morning”, 1 p, endorsed as his “First Poem” (see covering note) c MS account b...
“How I came to Town in 1866”
1869
MS, possibly an early draft for Father & Son, or another autobiographical work; with corrections in the same hand; 6 pp; n.d. Includes: “My hand operated upon, Jan. 1869”; MS; 3pp; n.d.
“Two Visits to Denmark”
1872-1874
Thick bundle of loose MS pages, relating to E.W.’s visits to Denmark in 1872 and 1874 (published in 1911); kept in hardcover book-like folder, spine bound in dark blue leather, with title in golden ...
“Notes of my Summer Holiday 1893”
1893
MS, executed at P.H. Gosse’s dictation, with his name written at foot, by E.W. Gosse; 6 pp
“It is a Great Honour [...]”
1894
MS lecture draft for 21 May 1894 Firth College Sheffield lecture “The Literary Movement of the Century”; 2 pp; with Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society ticket