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Sender: Poorten-Schwartz, Joost Marius Willem (pseud. Maarten Maartens), van der
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 28
Date(s): 17 Apr 1892 - 18 Sep 1914
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In volume Maarten Maartens.
Note: The letters of 9 Jul 1893, 5 November 1893, 28 June 1911, 19 June 1913 and 4 August 1914 are typewritten copies. In volume MAARTEN MAARTENS M. Poorton-Schwartz was a Dutch novelist who wrote in English under the pseudonym of Maarten Maartens by which name he is well known. Many of his books attained deserved popularity, the best known being "The Sin of Joost Ave lingh", "God's Fool", and "Harmen Pols". Balestier; stamps for G.'s son, Lady Jeune and morality; George Bentley, M.M.'s "Lewes", 5000 high among winter snows; thanks to Mr & Mrs G. for hospitality; thanks for membership of "Nat. Cloyb."; Zola "Questions at Issue", "Diana Tempest"; to "amicissime", G's visit to M.M.; M.M.'s dogs; wants of Society in Holland; Lord de Tabley; (1899) M.M.'s disease; to G. at Torquay from Algiers; wife's illness; (1905) thanks for Patmore, visit to Scotland; elections in Holland, socialists "simply systematic robbers of the rich"; life in Swiss hotel; Grierson; (1907) "lurid time" in New York;
invitation to ride in new motor car; crisis in England "Here, of course, we believe England to be a roaring revolution"; (1911) Wells, Radot; Keats; G. back from Norman holiday; Parisian gastronomy, G. Moore, M.M.'s dinner to 16 clergymen; (1913) sorrow for return after brief visit to G., fire at Doorn, illness of Phillip G; (8 August 1914) "do anything to prevent this little country being trodden down in dirt"; (12 August 1914) "all correspondence has ceased", ... "God be with you and us"; (15 August 1914) "I am convinced you are utterly mistaken", ... "resolve to defend our independence ... don't let us write any more".