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Sender: Campbell, Reginald John
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 25 Sep 1915
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Apology at not having answered sooner, ill health the reason of his retirement.
Sender: Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Oct 1876
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In POETICAL PAMPHLETS A.C. SWINBURNE, BC MS 19c Swinburne
Note: Inserted in his "Ode to Mazzini", 1909. About a "precious relic" and his own health.
Sender: Wilson, Sir Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Jul [1922]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In VISCOUNT HALDANE'S LETTERS, 12
Note: Haldane's health, "he cracked his jokes and seemed cheerful and happy. The only change I noticed was that he drank whiskey instead of wine.
Sender: Le Gallienne, Richard
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 23
Date(s): 21 Dec 1891 - 3 May 1894
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Thanks for "Shagpat" reference, invitation to "a beautiful country, ... a mile or two beyond Ealing"; "Narcissus"; holiday in Norway, saw Bjornsen & Ibsen; attack on him by B. Shaw in the "Star"; (3 March 1893) Ibsen, R. Case's candidature for librarianship of London Library; pleasure at G's "Memnon"; pleasure from visit to Cromer and prospectus of Le G's "The Religion of a Literary Man", bad health; "King Erik" a delightful surprise, "my eccentric passion for theology"; Zangwell about Buchanan in the "Star"; birth of a child; (December 1893) thanks for book; thanks for advice and articles by Gosse.
Sender: Watson, Robinson
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 7
Date(s): 6 Feb 1893 - 29 Mar 1893
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In vol. SIR WILLIAM WATSON
Note: Fund for his brother mentioned to him by R.H. Hutton, just back from Les Avants, brother's health some improvement; receipt for £12; thanks to Henry James and Sir H. Doulton, brother not so well; receipt for £17 ; wire of gratitude from Dover; Lucerne; some improvement; brother better at Lugano where he is leaving him; back in London as wouldn't stay alone, then to Southend and Limpley Stoke, unpleasant rumours devoid of truth, not true that brother had again broken down; must accept anything given on his brother's behalf "with a perfectly free mind", position one of great delicacy, will call; receipt for £10; receipt for £14; list of subscriptions; bountiful contribution, relation with "Macmillans"; four cheques.
Sender: Symonds, John Addington
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 67
Date(s): 7 Aug 1875 - 10 Jan 1893
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: An extremely interesting series of correspondence relating to Symonds' works - "The Renaissance in Italy", "Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti" and his translations. Symonds expresses his opinion of some contemporary writers, and his appreciation of Gosse's "Poems". Admires Gosse's essay on Herrick; (14 January 1876) acknowledges receipt of Gosse's "King Erik"; sends two poems illustrating Greek "philia"; replies to comments on the poems; asks Gosse if he would write the review of "Renaissance in Italy" for the "Quarterly Review"; delight that Gosse enjoys the "Revival of Learning"; (5 April 1877) ordered to Cannes for his health; shows concern that there is something wrong between Gosse and himself; offers explanation as to the arrangements for selling his books; review of "Renaissance in Italy"; thanks for gift of "Lotychius", mention of illness; (1 February 1878) will try an English translation of a poem on Antinous, Gosse's attempts to write a drama on Antinous; (7 April 1879) compliments
Gosse on his "Northern Studies"; explains his position in an article written in the "Fortnightly" which had offended Gosse; (18 November 1879) pleased with Gosse's poetry and discusses his style; misunderstanding growing out of "Fortnightly" article; (11 October 1884) announces the publication of a work on Goliardic poetry ["Wine, Women, and Song"]; compliments Gosse on his attainment of Harvard Professorship and the Lowell Lectureship; (8 November 1884) acknowledges with thanks Gosse's review of "Wine, Women, and Song"; proposes that Gosse do a work on Sidney and that Symonds would do one on Jonson for "English men of Letters"; acknowledges Gosse's reply to the "Quarterly Review" criticism of his observations on the place of criticism; (16 December 1884) attack on Symonds and Gosse in the Pall Mall Gazette by Churton Collins; (28 February 1890) observations on the genesis of ideas in his "A Problem in Greek Ethics"; discusses the collection of poems, "The Taming of Chimaere", on Gosse's
place in literature; (23 Novmber 1890) suggests that Gosse attempt to publish some translations from poems of Heine; (18 September 1891) reports on "MA B" ["Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"]; (10 January 1893) announces third edition of "Greek Poets", second edition of "Michelangelo", a memograph on "Walt Whitman" a new version of the "Decameron". Many of the letters mention typographical details in the published works of the two correspondents, and Symonds frequently reports on his state of health and his travels.
Sender: Bottomley, Gordon
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 14 letters; 16 sheets; 11 envelopes
Date(s): 18 Aug 1915 - 28 Jan 1920
Location: BC Gosse correspondence [8?]
Note: Reminiscences, father and early home life, Sanhurst meeting with old Mrs Gosse in Devonshire, move to Silverdale owing to health; visit to Sturge Moore in Hampstead, hopes to meet Gosse; constant lung trouble makes meeting difficult; King Lear and Ainley, remembrances of Mrs Gosse and "your beautiful house"; (9 Jun 1916) hopes to meet G. at Coniston, "my dear Carmel as a suitable destination", "the dream cathedral that rises in the middle of the village"; thanks for gift; gratified to find himself next to Mr Baring, Swinburne; death of B's mother after Lancaster munitions explosions; (2 April 1918) "27 years since I first read an essay of yours ... and I still feel the same anticipatory delight when I see your name", "miserable about my dear friend Lascelles Abercrombie" (his mechanical war work sapping his poetic energy), Julian Grenfell; Abercrombie and Buchan; gratitude for being made known to Hardy; G's 70th birthday to whom he owes so much; Poe, Mrs Whitman.
Sender: Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 49
Date(s): 11 Jan 1881 - 9 Nov 1896
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Coventry Patmore published his first volume of poems in 1844, and later was an assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum. He formed intimate relations with Tennyson and Ruskin, and made the acquaintance of the pre-Raphaelite group, to whose organ, "The Germ", he contributed. Requests for theatre tickets and invitations for dinners and week-ends; "I live all my days in a wilderness of fair women, and long for some male chat". Frequent mention is made of favours and gifts received from Gosse. Many letters deal with the reactions of Patmore to the criticism of the literary world through various reviews and literary publications. "Your ... lectures must have been very much thrown away upon the Yankees who are not scholarly people". Mention is made of reviews and criticisms appearing in the "Athenaeum", "Saturday Spectator", "Guardian", "Fortnightly", "Standard", "Quarterly Review", "Saturday Review", "New Review", and "St James's". Mention is made of the first
appearance of certain of Sir Edmund Gosse's writings which were sent out to Patmore and in turn, of Patmore's writings sent to Gosse. There appear occasional compliments on Gosse's works and by inference it is to be seen that Gosse offered Patmore compliments in return. Contemporaries mentioned: Kegan Paul, Buxton Forman, Basil Champneys, Austin Dobson, J.D. Campbell. The last letters in the collection reveal Patmore's declining health and indicate the nature of his complaints. "I scarcely ever go to town now, as I can not travel alone".