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Sender: Adams, William Henry Davenport
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Thanking Mr Gosse for interest taken and suggesting the writer should apply to a Fund for aid.
Sender: Heredia, Jose Maria de
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Apr 1894
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Inserted loose in the writer's "Les trophees", Paris, 1893 (first edition, in box). Fre.
BC Gosse correspondence.
Sender: Dundas, Lawrence John Lumley, 2nd Marquess of Zetland
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 4
Date(s): 15 Jan 1928 - 11 Mar 1928
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In vol. EARL OF RONALDSHAY - LORD CURZON, 1928. Not in printed catalogue. MSS, D-2, Dun.
Note: Signed: Ronaldshay (the writer was at this time earl of Ronaldshay). Bound with annotated proofs of title-page, preface and contents to his "Life of Lord Curzon".
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: Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, 2nd baronet
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 11
Date(s): 11 Feb 1897 - 21 Jul 1925
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Included in the volume are transcripts of certain letters from Sir George Trevelyan to Sir Edmund Gosse, the originals of which are bound with a suppressed pamphlet entitled "Letters to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan" from Algernon Charles Swinburne". In a letter dated 6 June 1909, Trevelyan writes: "... I cannot refrain from writing to you about your "Father and Son" which I have just read, - very slowly, and with great and unalloyed interest and delight. It is quiet unique. Nothing struck me more than the perfect subordination of every topic, in length and selection, to the main theme of the book. I had expected, some gloom and dourness, but there is a spirit of exquisite culture and humanity under a most singular set of conditions ...". Cannot accept invitation for the Royal Literary Fund; pleasure in reading "Father and Son"; question about the Earl of Bristol in 1779; visit by Gosse; six transcripts about Gosse's biography of Swinburne (five of the originals bound with "Letters to Pauline
Lady Trevelyn from ... Swinburne, 1916" in the Brotherton Collection); Sir George Young and Swinburne; the Posthumous Poems; Gladstone and High Anglicans; the "Victorian Agony", the winter of 1861 in Rome with Odo Russell; Professor Puccio, Swinburne and Mazzini; agreement with Gosse's views on Henry James and other writers; life of Bright. Two letters from Lord Sanderson on Odo Russell are included.
Sender: Symonds, John Addington
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 67
Date(s): 7 Aug 1875 - 10 Jan 1893
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: An extremely interesting series of correspondence relating to Symonds' works - "The Renaissance in Italy", "Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti" and his translations. Symonds expresses his opinion of some contemporary writers, and his appreciation of Gosse's "Poems". Admires Gosse's essay on Herrick; (14 January 1876) acknowledges receipt of Gosse's "King Erik"; sends two poems illustrating Greek "philia"; replies to comments on the poems; asks Gosse if he would write the review of "Renaissance in Italy" for the "Quarterly Review"; delight that Gosse enjoys the "Revival of Learning"; (5 April 1877) ordered to Cannes for his health; shows concern that there is something wrong between Gosse and himself; offers explanation as to the arrangements for selling his books; review of "Renaissance in Italy"; thanks for gift of "Lotychius", mention of illness; (1 February 1878) will try an English translation of a poem on Antinous, Gosse's attempts to write a drama on Antinous; (7 April 1879) compliments
Gosse on his "Northern Studies"; explains his position in an article written in the "Fortnightly" which had offended Gosse; (18 November 1879) pleased with Gosse's poetry and discusses his style; misunderstanding growing out of "Fortnightly" article; (11 October 1884) announces the publication of a work on Goliardic poetry ["Wine, Women, and Song"]; compliments Gosse on his attainment of Harvard Professorship and the Lowell Lectureship; (8 November 1884) acknowledges with thanks Gosse's review of "Wine, Women, and Song"; proposes that Gosse do a work on Sidney and that Symonds would do one on Jonson for "English men of Letters"; acknowledges Gosse's reply to the "Quarterly Review" criticism of his observations on the place of criticism; (16 December 1884) attack on Symonds and Gosse in the Pall Mall Gazette by Churton Collins; (28 February 1890) observations on the genesis of ideas in his "A Problem in Greek Ethics"; discusses the collection of poems, "The Taming of Chimaere", on Gosse's
place in literature; (23 Novmber 1890) suggests that Gosse attempt to publish some translations from poems of Heine; (18 September 1891) reports on "MA B" ["Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"]; (10 January 1893) announces third edition of "Greek Poets", second edition of "Michelangelo", a memograph on "Walt Whitman" a new version of the "Decameron". Many of the letters mention typographical details in the published works of the two correspondents, and Symonds frequently reports on his state of health and his travels.
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: Moore, George Augustus
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 123
Date(s): [8 Jul 1887] - 31 Aug [1927]; 28 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence, bound volume
Note: Refusal of invitation by Lord Randolph to meet someone, verse, Andrew Lang; Henley too ornate; Manet's paintings; thanks for poems "far the best volume you have published"; M's "Celibates"; G's biography of his father; (23 January 1897) accident; (1901) Balzac off to Bayreuth; new book; new book "Memoirs of my Dead Life"; (1906) more advice on G's biography of his father; Dostoievsky; (1907) impressions of G's life of his father; Sister Teresa; (1912) urges continuation of G's life; cannot go with G to France; (1913) criticises G's remark cowardly for England to attack Germany without warning; heroes in English fiction in the sixties; "Elizabeth Cooper"; Sterne, Faust in French ; (1914) Swinburne; the Irish situation "If God has a drop of Irish blood in his veins he'll never allow Home Rule in Ulster"; (1915) Syrian story "I don't think I shall write any more"; "Hernit and Wayfarer"; "Muslin"; (1916) G's "History of English Literature"; Swinburne; G "past master in the art of teasing";
(1916) M's broken wrist; misunderstanding, Lord Howard de Walden anxious to know G; (1917) G's book on Swinburne; "Lewis Seymour and Some Women"; M's verse on the Garden of Eden; Landor; English opposition to Home Rule; (1918) "no first class mind has expressed itself in prose narrative"; distressed that G had thought him lacking in respect; Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixote, Sterne; Imaginary conversations at G's house; G's ommision of Borrow; "A Storyteller's Holiday"; Eddie Marsh, "The Coming of Gabrielle"; Fielding "the most perfectly empty writer"; (2 November 1918) Dickens, Westminster Gazzette on Moore and Gosse; Shorthouse; (1919) received from Baring G's "Life of Gray"; M off to Nantes; avowals, art. for Aubry; M. at Blois, Heloise; (October 1919) with Lord Northcliffe at Broadstairs, Watts-Dunton's imagined death; poor opinions of Dumas; G "on viol and flute"; Otway , one act play by M; (26 January 1921) Swinburne; arts. in Sunday papers "you have a surprising gift of narrative ... I
always write to you Gosse when I am depressed; why translate verse into verse? Gerard's Voyage on Orient, M's play on S. Paul; Recamier; (17 October 1922) Scene of Queen Elizabeth at a play; delight at G's articles; (27 January 1923) S. Paul; Pope; O'Shaughnessy, Daphnis and Chloe; (14 December 1924) Gosse's article "You are at your best ... when you are writing about poetry and poets"; G on Miss Sitwell; habit of reviewers to omit mention of Moore's name; (10 September 1926) Niedson's "Swinburne", Anatole France; Lady Cunard, and the "Daily Mail" and twelve great novelists; the "Daily Mail" and "wild nature"; Horace Walpole; Maurice Hewlett. The letters are difficult to summarise. They contain very dogmatic views about great authors. There is a good deal of complaint about the use of French instead of English phrases.