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Sender: Fortini-Santarelli, Sofia
Recipient: Clodd, Edward
Letters: 2
Date(s): 12 Oct 1875; 28 Oct 1875
Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Childhood of Religions" [end: no.11-12]
Category: 19c2 Female
Ravogli, Guilea & Ravogli, Sofia to [Stoker, Bram]
Ravogli, Guilea & Ravogli, Sofia
[--] Dec 1893
One card autographed by the sisters Guilea and Sofia Ravogli.
Sender: Key, Ellen Karolina Sofia
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 9 Aug 1902; 17 Oct 1919
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In SCANDINAVIA AND SCOTLAND box
Note: BC Gosse correspondence. In SCANDINAVIA AND SCOTLAND box
Sender: Baring, Maurice
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 42
Date(s): 9 Apr 1894 - 12 Mar 1925
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Note: Maurice Baring entered the Diplomatic Sevice in 1898, and was attache to the British Embassy in Paris, and later in Copenhagen and Rome. He was also employed in the Foreign Office, but resigned in 1904. He was war correspondent for "The Morning Post" and "The Times", and served in the Great War. He has written many books of stories, essays, plays, and poetry, including accounts of his travels and also a number of translations. Very intimate correspondence. Life at Florence, Lady Minto, Princess Beatrice, the Asquiths, Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Vernon Lee, Maurice Barres, D'Annunzio; French hostility during the South African War; Sarah Bernhardt in "Hamlet" at Paris; Donne's poems; Stevenson, Kipling, Ibsen; Hervieu; quotations from Andre Chenier, reading Gorki in Russian; Eddy March; Manchuria during the Russo-Japan war, dislike of the Japanese; verse from "Elysium" with sketch-map of High Holborn and Gray's Inn; praise of Gosse's book; life at St. Petersburg; Denmark; Sarah
Bernhardt; at Brussels on the way to Sofia, had enjoyed America beyond words; translation from Gogol; war letters from Royal Flying Corps in France; Gosse's account of Rheims; poem on a Zeppelin; Swinburne, Henry James; Hugh Cecil, Countess Benckendorff; the beach at Carbis Bay; Rome in 1925. Rough pen-and-ink sketches are sometimes attached. Gosse is addressed as "Mon cher Maitre" or "g". The spelling is erratic.