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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Gosse, Edmund | 11 |
| Benson, Edward Frederic | 1 |
| Benson, Robert Hugh | 1 |
| Bingham, George, 4th Earl of Lucan | 1 |
| Butler, Elizabeth, Lady (Nee Thompson) | 1 |
| Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, 1st Marquess of Crewe | 1 |
| Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | 1 |
| Macmillan | 1 |
| Sanderson, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Sanderson of Armthorpe | 1 |
| Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, 2nd Baronet | 1 |
Sender: Butler, Elizabeth, Lady (nee Thompson)
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 31 Jan [1882]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: With regard to sketches from an article by her sister, Mrs Meynell.
Sender: Sanderson, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Sanderson of Armthorpe
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 6 Nov 1918
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In volume SIR GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN
Note: With regard to Sir George Trevelyan's comments on Odo Russell and Cardinal Manning.
Sender: Bingham, George, 4th Earl of Lucan
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 27 Feb 1907; 1 Mar [1907?]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Wishing to use the House of Lords Library with regard to a Peerage Claim; thanking Mr Gosse for allowing it.
Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Macmillan
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Draft of letter. Also enclosed some notes regarding Gosse's correspondence with Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sender: Benson, Edward Frederic
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 6
Date(s): 7 Oct 1893 - 3 May 1927
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Thanks for remarks on his new book; discussion of "Questions at Issue" with regard to Realism; enclosing a new play; death of his father; death of Arthur Benson; concerning his Drake.
Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Benson, Robert Hugh
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Mar 1907
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Note: A copy in Sir Edmund Gosse's hand. Enclosed is a copy of a letter regarding Gosse's experience as editor of a literary supplement for 'The Daily Mail'. Also a column about a publication called 'Books'.
Sender: Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, 2nd baronet
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 7
Date(s): 6 Jun 1916 - 11 Jul 1916
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Inserted in A.C. Swinburne's "Letters to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan", 1916. Gen., SWINBURNE. Concerning Swinburne's letters to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan - sends all he regards as publishable; those he has retained do not relate to drinking; astonished that the letters have been published in pamphlet form and not reproduced in the biography only, as he desires; thanks Goose for sending the letters and thinks they will be of great interest.
Sender: Watts, Walter Theodore (aft. Watts-Dunton)
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 21
Date(s): 29 Sep 1879 - 26 Jul 1903
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. GOSSE, mss, D-2, WAT
Note: Swinburne's visit, 6 lines of verse; Furnivall fraud, attempt to blackmail Swinburne; charm of intercourse with Gosse; thanks for mention in the "Century", contemporary poetry; (31 December 1890) "our vulgar and illiterate press", laments bygone times; revised proof of Gosse's "King Erik"; (10 June 1895) to Gosse and Maarten Maartens; asks to be called Watts-Dunton; (9 October 1896) William Morris, Gosse's article in "St. James's Gazette", republication of his articles in "Athenaeum"; Watts-Dunton's "Elizabethan" poem; Andrew Lang and Stevenson; the "Coming of Love", regards from Swinburne; Swinburne and the "Literary Fund", influenza compels dictation of all letters; F.W. Robinson and Swinburne Fund; (21 July 1899) Swinburne's habits, [pencil note by T.J. Wise on Watts-Dunton's tediousness]; article on Daudet; (25 May 1902) Gosse's article in the "Century Magazine" on Swinburne; Henley and George Meredith; Henley without originality.
Sender: Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 58
Date(s): 28 May 1893 - 16 Dec 1924; 2 n.d. ["Apr 19"; "Apr
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Thanks for the manner in which mention of a textual inaccuracy was received; a Rossetti sonnet; enclosing 2; unable to attend; invitation; copy of Curzon's poems; letter of thanks; return from a trip; grateful for trouble taken; further thanks for
efforts; thanks for a criticism; concerning a possible amalgamation; on Gosse's poems; on a point of literary taste; a Goethe question; Eastern literature; a Silver wedding present; letter of thanks; invitation; point in the "Spectator"; kindness with regard to Curzon's verses; invitation; thanks for his trouble; thanks for encouragement; excuse of illness; thanks for trouble about epitaphs; thanks for kindness; with an enclosure; further criticism on Curzon's verses; final expression of thanks; promises to mention a certain matter; uncertain what he is supposed to do; thanks for congratulations; condolences on an outrage; promises to send on a letter; invitation to lunch; acknowledgements for the committee; thanks again; sends translations, wishes them returned; thanks for a gift; thanks for appreciative words; invitation to lunch; tracing a quotation from Fortesque; thanks for a tribute to his work; progress of Gosse's illness; concerning a recommendation.
Sender: Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, 1st Marquess of Crewe
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 45
Date(s): 27 Sep 1894 - 7 Mar 1927
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Grant to Walter Pater's sisters; invitation to Dublin; Mr Besant's address; quitting Ireland; London Library and Mrs Harrison; Rhys and Literary Fund; (4 March 1899) thanks for Kipling volume; Du Bellay; Bornier; Glatigny; (13 December 1905 to G. at House of Lords) "nearly thirty years since we first met, when I was an undergraduate"; apology for not sending verses, biographies by his father; thanks for Scotts Grey speech; (5 June 1907) must attend "weary Guildhall banquet"; (17 January 1914) acknowledges receipt for Swinburne papers, Crewe's MSS. of English authors, offers MSS to Gosse; thanks for copy of Swinburne; happy to succeed Redesdale at Red Cross Sale; (24 May 1917) thanks for "Inter Arma", wishes physical hell for German army; (30 September 1917 to G. at Colwyn Bay) cirular to allies; Crewe's "War and Poetry", Rupert Brooke, Maurice Baring; lending to Wise C's copy of Landor's "Fox"; (8 October 1918 to G. at Cloan, Aughterarder) regards to Haldane; thanks for Swinburne,
"Watts-Dunton's shabby part in separating the port from his old friends"; (11 February 1921) sending Masefield's letter; R. Sovs. of lit; honorary professorship offered to Gosse; J.C. Squire's Shelley speech ; (1 December 1922) thanks for congratulation on Paris appointment; (7 March 1926) asks G. to add his name to Council for British Institute at Paris. [Pencil note: unable to accept invitation to meet Princess of Wales at tea. n.d.].
Sender: Wise, Thomas James
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 9
Date(s): 7 Nov 1927 - 1 Jan 1928
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: In vol. SHELLEYANA. LETTERS FROM T.J. WISE TO SIR EDMUND GOSSE RELATING TO P.B. SHELLEY. Proposed disposal of Wise's library, criticises Walter Peck [Walter Edwin Peck. "Shelley: His Life and Work", 1927] "America is saturated with forged Shelley documents"; Carl Pforzheimer a "short, fat, Yankee-German-American-Wall Street-man", Pforzheimer's purchases, relations with Peck, material on Shelley; "Every one of Shelley's biographers, from Dowden downwards, makes far too much of the "atheism" period when Shelley was finding his feet"; "... Hogg certainly does give a saner view of the mind and thought of Shelley at that time"; (12 November 1927) Peck's "Shelley", "What a dreadful book!"; "A monument of industry but nothing else". "Hogg reprinted almost in full ...", Shelley forgeries; refutes Peck's statement that there exists a "Shelley-Brookes correspondence", such "correspondence" is merely a bundle of "cheques and orders to pay"; thanks for information on the authorship of "A True Story",
bitter comments on theft and roguery, "Childe Harold", Canto IV and its editions, Peck's references to adulterous conduct of Shelley, his unpublished letters which Wise claims to be forged, compliments Gosse on his recent Sunday essay; review of Peck's book; rebuts the reviewer's doubt of the "genuine character" of a leter from Shelley to Mary regarding the death of Harriet [in Wise's possession]; discusses bibliographical details and remarks further on Peck's "two dreary volumes" with an explanation as to their lack of proportion, compliments on Gosse's "Shadwell" paper. The letters are written in an intimate style and express strong views.