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Sender: Yeats, William Butler
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 24
Date(s): [20 Nov 1905] - 23 Nov [1923]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Sender: Birrell, Augustine
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 10
Date(s): [8 Jul 1889] - 18 Mar 1918; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Wells, Stevenson; pension to W.B. Yeats; attacked by suffragists in 1910; Home Rule has murdered Swinburne; Christmas greetings; death of Barry O'Brien; Sir Thomas Browne; presents.
Sender: Beerbohm, Sir Max
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 23
Date(s): 25 Mar 1899 - [24 Nov 1917]; 3 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: About a sonnet they are writing together; condolences on sickness; answer to adverse criticism; thanks for Gosse's remarks on his book; regrets he cannot accept an invitation; accepting an invitation; accepting another; looking forward to an engagement; another acceptance; a Christmas letter; thanks for Henry James' opinion of him; looking forward to lunching with Gosse; leaving for Wales; William Butler Yeats; excerpt from an Italian newspaper; gratitude for Gosse's opinion of a manuscript; sale of the "Christmas Garland"; coming to call; thanks for praise; accepting an invitation to dine; looking forward to lunch.
Also - two 'ends' of letters with Yeats' signature.
Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 25
Date(s): 10 Sep 1896 - 3 Aug 1924
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: A talk with his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury; on an agreement with the Archbishop; appointment; the Archbishop and Macmillan's; the Archbishop's death at Hawarden; funeral arrangements; clearing up at Lambeth, "My mother ... sends her love to you & Mrs Gosse"; cards of Latin verse on Hugh Walpole's book; serious illness, gratitude for kindness; regret for ungrateful and ungenerous behaviour; recuperating at Harrogate; contributions to the "Sunday Times"; reading "Father and Son" again, one "of the very best books of the time", Percy Lubock's new book; thanks for a perfect evening; invitation to the Pepys dinner; on the Trefoil; Gosse at 74, lady and dogs at Liverpool Street; Leslie Stephen - E.M. Forster - Yeats - Percy Lubbock; Haldane.
Sender: Symons, Arthur
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 59
Date(s): 11 May 1890 - 23 May 1908
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Arthur Symons is a writer of both verse and prose, and has published many books, including Studies in Elizabethan Drama, Translations from Baudelaire, and works on Browning, William Blake, and Thomas Hardy, as well as essays and poems. Delightful time in Paris; Rhys; impression of Provence and Spain; differs from G. about Saintsbury; (4 September 1891) just back from Berlin, Heinemann to publish his poems. "Running from flat to flat after actresses from stage door to Green-room club after actors", music halls, his "Causeries de Samedi" in the "Star"; "The Minister's Call", the "Rhymer", Essay on Verlaine; Kipling at the Trocadero; Spanish Music Hall; Mallarme, Miss Willard; review of Ibsen; (21 November 1893) Verlaine's lecture; S. at the Empire; G. on Chritina Rossetti; (1894) G's "Poems" S. in it; G. on Pater, Yzette Guilbert at the Empire; night life; Montesquieu, Norman Gale, Selwyn Image & S.'s poems; enjoyed G.'s critical Kit-Kats; G's Patmore; (1897) visits Swinburne, G's "Rome",
off to Bayreuth and Moscow; book by W. Doxey quoting G freely; G on Loti; with Yeats, reviews of Dowden, Meredith, article on Moscow; (1898) Donne; S's Beardsley, "The Dome"; money owing for articles; Brunetiere; Seville, Velasquez; Balfour, Yeats; friendship with Moore & Watts-Dunton; Belgian art; account of Troitsa monastery, Byron; G in Norway, S for 5 days with Hardy; (1901) delight with G's book; S's poems in 2 vols. Coleridge, Wordsworth; "Balfour is the only man in politics in whom I feel any interest", Leslie Stephens; (1902) to Cologne, Munich, Bayreuth, Vienna and Constantinople; Casanova; "Hardy" for Encycl. Brit.; (1903) essay on Hawthorne, S. in Italy; G's Jeremy Taylor; (1905) King & Coven. Patmore art. on Wagner; pleased with G's Sir Thomas Browne; S's essay on Rogers; Ibsen, Craigie; (1906) S on Pater have had to snatch at anything that loan from G; Mrs Watts-Dunton; G wants S to write book on Blake, translation for "Mrs Pat"; G's generosity, S's "Harvesters"; Talbade,
Verlaine, G's Ibsen; S's "Romantic moment"; Swinburne's "Duke of Gandia", S's "Book of Paradise"; (1908) G's best books liked in France, against Shaw; Laclos. Much of the correspondence consists of applications by Symons to Gosse for assistance in obtaining literary work.