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Total number of records: 6
Count of People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Gosse, Edmund | 6 |
| Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Mrs Reginald Walpole Craigie), (Pseud. John Oliver Hobbes) | 1 |
| Crockett, Samuel Rutherford | 1 |
| Masefield, John | 1 |
| Norris, William Edward | 1 |
| Ogilvy, Henrietta Blanche, Countess of Airlie | 1 |
| Poorten-Schwartz, Joost Marius Willem (Pseud. Maarten Maartens) Van Der | 1 |
Sender: Crockett, Samuel Rutherford
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 4
Date(s): 2 Apr 1894 - 15 Jun 1894
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: With a copy of "The Raiders"; thanks for a kind letter, sending on another novel, and his poems; glad that Gosse approves "The Lilac Sunbonnet"; moving into a new home.
Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Poorten-Schwartz, Joost Marius Willem (pseud. Maarten Maartens) van der
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Dec 1898
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Typewritten copy. In vol. MAARTEN MAARTENS. "Monstrous fine performance of Mar's new novel. "Don't come now". "Never before ... has literature ... been at so low an ebb in this country".
Sender: Masefield, John
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 18
Date(s): 24 Nov 1911 - 1 Jan 1916; 1 n.d. ["June 17"]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: John Masefield, Hon. D.Litt., Oxon., 1922, the writer of many poems, novels and plays, has been Poet Laureate since 1930. He was elected a Member of the Academic Committee in November, 1913.
Sender: Ogilvy, Henrietta Blanche, Countess of Airlie
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 13
Date(s): 2 May 1914 - 20 Nov 1920; 1 n.d. ["April 26"]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: A Life of Granville; meeting with George Trevelyan and Henry James; trouble with her eyes; old age and Lady Londonderry; a war-time wedding; an unfinished novel of Disraeli; what to do with the Kaiser; Matthew Arnold, and Disraeli on him; Lady Airlie's son; visits at Holland House; old age of women; a visit to the young Queen Victoria.
Sender: Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Mrs Reginald Walpole Craigie), (pseud. John Oliver Hobbes)
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 17
Date(s): [6 Jun 1898] - 5 Jun 1905
Location: BC Gosse correspondence, shelved in volume lettered JOHN OLIVER HOBBES
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Mrs Craigie was an American, educated in England, who married young and unhappily, but she was fortunate in having a very charming and rich father, who made a fortune by a world-advertised patent pill. His daughter was also his companion, and lived in his castle in the Isle of Wight. The ambitious authoress had every luxury money could obtain, even to a literary journal, "The Academy". On comedy writing; Mauprat and Donne; a sequel to "The School for Saints"; deep gratitude for letter about "Brigit"; thanks for incomplete delightful letters; willing to write on George Sand; Austin Dobson's poems; Life in Paris, where had met Seaman; novel by Mrs Eustis; hopes something can be done for Joseph Conrad; "as for the birthday, it must have its own proper letter from your completely infatuated grateful Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie"; theatre business; article on "notre cher Jeremy"; encloses "my little satire"; lack of appreciation of comedy and satire.
Sender: Norris, William Edward
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 63
Date(s): 31 May 1891 - 26 Mar 1923
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: William Edward Norris was a barrister in the Inner Temple in 1874, but never practised. He wrote some thirty novels between 1877 and 1925, when he died at his home in Torquay. Meeting in London; Pierre Loti; distressed by a tragedy; golf article; Balestier; read G's "Narcisse"; membership of National Club; Egerton Castle; (1894) "The Swan"; N and his dogs on Christmas Day, President Cleveland; Archbishop and Deans, funeral attire; (24 October 1896) Henry James, G's son to South America, Kipling dinner with N. at Torquay; thanks for praise of book; Christmas solitude, "Aphrodite"; G. to Torquay, golf; Augustus Hare; Henry James at Torquay; Bateman, Heinemann's nuptials at Rome; (1899) illness; (22 July 1900) motor car and evening frocks, N. not a cynic; life at Torquay, Henry James, Bateman, "Kim"; (1902) G's Scandinavian research, Wisby likes Swedes, Lady Fitzgerald's death, going to Naples, Ceylon, Tasmania; leaving his house; (1 January 1903) two days in Rome, Naples, Syracuse to Malta
which he doesn't like, Henry James' "Wings of the Dove"; Colombo, Kandy, gout attack at Melbourne, stayed with Governor of Victoria, racing at Melbourne, Government house at Hobart, likes people and scenery of Tasmania better than Australia, Melbourne ugly, silence of Henry James, G's "Jeremy Taylor", Sir Hector Macdonald's suicide; (2 October 1904) from Malvern, Lowndes, off to Buxton, article in Pall Magazine on N. as a novelist, alleged decay of English novel, Henry James in New Hampshire, old age; (4 November 1905) Henry James, G. in Italy; Hewlett's "Fond Adventures"; (10 November 1906) "knavish tricks of these rascally Radical Ministers ...", "C.B. and his crew", navy's weakness; Leslie Stephens; racing; wish to meet Anthony Hope; circle of friends growing smaller, clings to Torquay, G. to Montpelier, N. to Cannes, Rhoda Broughton; (18 November 1908) N. at Eaton; Christmas in Wilts., golf, nothing from Henry James; G. entertaining Princess of Wales; (12 July 1910) anxious about
Henry James, future state of existence, cricket at Lord's; Henry James right to go to America; Henry James "mind more or less unhinged"; G. to Provence, N. to Scotland; Daudet volume, "this vile Election", "after us the deluge"; (28 December 1912) Henry James and shingles, Andre Gide, European situation and Austria, Bonar Law, Carson, G. to Locerno; (21 October 1914) Not Sheringham cruisers offshore. "I didn't want this war"; present struggle no element of finality, universal obligatory service, cannot crush Germany unless Slavs do a generation hence, Young, Hewlett, Henry James, Princess Salm; am not a "violent pessimist", Bateman, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu; (22 December 1915) "these awful times", Lloyd George's croakings, poison, Asquith, Haig; death of James, "the war killed him"; (1920) Henry James's letters, Lloyd George's maladresse, and the "pompous bounder Curzon". "Poor silly old League of Nations"; (6 February 1921) Balfour, Harold Begbie; resignation from golf club, G. in "Sunday
Times"; Windham Club; (1923) Torquay rivelling Blackpool and Margate, triumph of socialism.