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Sender: Read, Sir Herbert
Recipient: Orr, P.C.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Oct 1966
Location: BC Read C1087
Note: The reply to Orr of the British Council asking Read if he'll make a recording of some of his poems. This is typed on the back of the original letter.
Sender: Orr, P.C.
Recipient: Read, Sir Herbert
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Oct 1966
Location: BC Read C1087
Note: Sender is writing from the British Council asking Read if he'll make a recording of some of his poems. The reply is typed on the back of the letter.
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: 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.