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Sender: Marsh, Sir Edward Howard
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Jun 1914
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In volume NOYES
Note: Trouble about Noyes. "This horrid little episode ... It has only increased my affections for you", signed Eddie. Enveloped endorsed "E. Marsh on the malice of A. Noyes".
Sender: Ingelow, Jean
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 4
Date(s): 15 Dec 1873 - [4 Aug 1885]; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In volume JEAN INGELOW
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Jean Ingelow's first volume "A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings", published in 1850, attracted little attention, although Tennyson found some charming things in it. It was not until the publication of the first series of "poems" in 1863 that the public recognised in Miss Ingelow a poet of high merit. It contained the verses entitled "High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571", which for earnestness and technical excellence is one of the finest modern ballards. Her verse is mainly characterised by lyrical charm, graceful fancy, pathos, close and accurate observation of nature, and sympathy with the common interests of life. The language is invariably clear and simple.
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: 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: 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".
Sender: Buchanan, Sir George William
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 71
Date(s): 17 Nov 1919 - 14 Oct 1921; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence, Autograph letters from Buchanan
Note: The letters are very full and familiar, being headed "My dear friend and master", "Best and most faithful of friends", etc. They commence with the arrival of the ambassador at Rome and describe the situation in the country directly after the war of 1914-1918. "The Army & the Fleet are entirely out of hand ... The Govt. is entirely powerless". Displeasure of the Foreign Office with his being "over rapturous" in pushing the Italian claims. Wreck at Petrograd. Illness of wife. "So you want, my inquisitive friend, to make me betray my official secrets". Italian grievances about the Peace Conference and Fiume. "I am, I must confess, very disheartened. I am entirely out of touch with my own Govt." Horrors in Russia. Strikes. Clemenceau & the Persidency. Haldane's book. "If Poland is crushed and if the Germans and Russians join hands, I tremble to think what may happen". Wilson's arrogant letter to Lansig. "My day is past. An ambassador nowadays is a mere cypher." Increasing
economic troubles in Italy. Bitterness against Wilson. Anxious to know about Asquith's future line of action in parliament. Dislike of new little republics. Venizelos. Paderewski. Nitti on France and the Allies being too hard on Germany. A lie by Tirpitz. Prime Minister and Riddell. Situation in Italy becoming more serious. Sforza. Anglo-French relations. Illness. Balfour & San Remo. Nitti and the Chamber: his increasing popularity. Disgust with Li. George for trukling to Krassin. Giolitti's Govt. Trouble on railways. "I cannot, oh curious one, tell you anything about Balfour's conversation with the Pope". Samuel & Palestine. Anarchists at Ancone. Food situation serious. Posilippo. His Russian memoirs. Visit to Crowborough. Poland & Russia. Trouble with Paleologue. A difficult winter's journey to Rome. Italy & the Yuogslavs. Rising prices. Defeat of Venizelos. Finns: "I much prefer the old empires to these mushhroom states." Giollitti weaker. D'Annunzio & Fiume. "I
have lost all sympathy with the Italians". Fascists first mentioned 21 Dec 1920. Col. Repington. Fights between Facists & Socialists. Li. George & Sforza. Keats centenary. "It is not the Germans who scare me but Poincare (Briand)". Sir Maurice Hankey's visit. "Do try to find out who is destined to be my successor". Ultra-catholic demonstration against England. Bad reception of Bolshevik mission to Rome. Anarchist bomb outrages. Sforza & Turco-Greek conflict. Turco-Italian agreement. Haldane's position. "Conflicts between Fascists and Socialists are of daily occurence". Doubts about the punitive occupation of the Ruhr. Why doesn't British Govt. arrest strikers? Buchanan & Curzon. General strike of state employes. Old order disappearing. Ministerial crisis. Giolitti, Labriola, & Sforza. Curzon's anger with Sforza. Meeting with Japanese Crown Prince. Buckle's Life of Disraeli. Silesian question. Sorrento & Anagni. Princess Yousoupoff. Ronald Graham as his successor. Wife's
illness.