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Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Rogers, William Showell
Letters: 4
Date(s): 31 Oct 1894 - 8 Jun 1895
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: In 2nd copy of Gosse's "In Russet & Silver", 1894.
Sender: Boughey, Anchitel Harry Fletcher
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Feb 1894
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: See also the letter from Maurice Baring to Gosse headed "Monday" [February 1894]. Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Hake, Thomas Gordon
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 24 Feb 1887; 9 Aug [1894]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. Inserted in "Living English Poets", 1883
Note: The letter of 9 August encloses a draft of Hake's poem "The Keats Memorial", dated 17 July 1894.
Sender: Pawling, Sydney S.
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Feb 1895
Location: BC Gosse correspondence, GOSSE D-3
Note: Inserted in "Hampstead Cricket Club, Season 1894". [With anonymous introduction by Edmund Gosse, signed by him in ink]. Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Baring, Maurice
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): [Feb 1894]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Headed "Monday". See also the letter from A.H.F. Boughey to Gosse dated 18 February 1894. Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Smith, William Robertson
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 9
Date(s): 21 Jul 1884 - 7 Mar [1894]; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: The letter dated 28 November 1892 is a copy in the handwriting of Sir Edmund Gosse. A printed notice of Smith's funeral, 31 March 1894, is enclosed with the set.
Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 13
Date(s): 12 Jan 1893 - 8 Jan 1918; 1 n.d. ["Saturday night"
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: On the same sheet as the letter of 26 March [1894] is an autograph poem "The Yaffle", signed ACB. In the same envelope with the letter are two fragments (of letters?) in Benson's handwriting. The envelope is addressed to Edmund Gosse and is postmark-dated 26 March 1894. The letter of 17 May 1908, signed ACB, was formerly in the "unidentified" file. With the letters is a poem headed "With the Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton" in Benson's handwriting, signed with his initials, and dated at foot 4 July 1893. It is in an envelope addressed to Gosse with postmark-date 31 July 1893. Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 18
Date(s): 10 Dec [1891] - 3 Jan 1917; 2 n.d.; also 1 fragmen
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In volume SIR WILLIAM WATSON
Note: Letter from Hall Caine; ticket for Shelley celebration, meeting Lord de Tabley; (1892) illness; Hume and Gray's use of "agonise"; attack on Macmillan & Co.; illness; from Windsor, "great and glad tidings"; (29 October 1894) W. at Southport, taking lodgings at Richmond, gratitude to G., charming letters from Arthur Bendon; thanks for book; (28 February) thanks for appreciation of poem, song enclosed, W. "immensely well at Folkestone"; thanks for "gratulations"; G's criticism of W's verse; chill on top of bus from Hythe; (26 April 1909) W's letter to "Times", Davidson; (5 December 1916) Gosse and Gray. W's appreciation, W. at Cambridge with wife and children, little book of verse; G's retirement, Maarten Maartens on G.; has never read "Father and Son", G's liking of W's "Pencraft", souvenir of Walt Whitman; likes "Father and Son", W. clings "to a kind of 18th century Theism".
Sender: James, Henry
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 245
Date(s): 2 Aug [1882] - 9 Jul 1915
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Letter of 1 July 1894: enclosed is one to William Dean Howells dated the same day. 13 volumes. The letters are couched in a familiar strain and on occasion have an affectionate commencement, such as "My dear Philomel", and "Dear diminutive Edmund". Some of the later ones are typed. There are some telegrams and cards. Contemporaries mentioned include Besant, Lowell, Morison, Philip Henry Gosse (the father with an account of his death), Whistler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Swinburne, the death of James' sister, Zola, Lady Wolseley, Jusserand, Hagberg Wright, Walter Pater, "The wretch Oscar Wilde", Andrew Lang, President Cleveland (the Venezuela incident), Du Maurier, Arthur Benson, Kipling, Sargent (for a drawing), Rupert Brooke, Brandes, Wells, Leslie Stephens, Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) Alma-Tadema Harland. Many of the letters are about appointments for meeting. There are but few references to events of historical importance, such the South African War ("a nightmare") and the war of
1914-1918. Lady Gosse is called "Mrs Nelly". There is a supplementary volume containing references to Henry James' death and funeral, etc. These letters are entered separately. This final volume contains the order of the funeral service at Chelsea Old Church.
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.
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.