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Sender: Bancroft, George
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 3
Date(s): 2 Mar 1885 - 3 Aug 1885
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: The letter dated 3 August 1885 is a transcript in Sir Edmund Gosse's hand. Thanks for a copy of Gosse edition of the poems of Gray; intention to write a book; sending a copy of the new book; discussion of the new Pesident.
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: Baring, Maurice
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 42
Date(s): 9 Apr 1894 - 12 Mar 1925
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Note: Maurice Baring entered the Diplomatic Sevice in 1898, and was attache to the British Embassy in Paris, and later in Copenhagen and Rome. He was also employed in the Foreign Office, but resigned in 1904. He was war correspondent for "The Morning Post" and "The Times", and served in the Great War. He has written many books of stories, essays, plays, and poetry, including accounts of his travels and also a number of translations. Very intimate correspondence. Life at Florence, Lady Minto, Princess Beatrice, the Asquiths, Henry James, Max Beerbohm, Vernon Lee, Maurice Barres, D'Annunzio; French hostility during the South African War; Sarah Bernhardt in "Hamlet" at Paris; Donne's poems; Stevenson, Kipling, Ibsen; Hervieu; quotations from Andre Chenier, reading Gorki in Russian; Eddy March; Manchuria during the Russo-Japan war, dislike of the Japanese; verse from "Elysium" with sketch-map of High Holborn and Gray's Inn; praise of Gosse's book; life at St. Petersburg; Denmark; Sarah
Bernhardt; at Brussels on the way to Sofia, had enjoyed America beyond words; translation from Gogol; war letters from Royal Flying Corps in France; Gosse's account of Rheims; poem on a Zeppelin; Swinburne, Henry James; Hugh Cecil, Countess Benckendorff; the beach at Carbis Bay; Rome in 1925. Rough pen-and-ink sketches are sometimes attached. Gosse is addressed as "Mon cher Maitre" or "g". The spelling is erratic.
Sender: Behrens, A.
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Oct 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL vol.
Sender: Bentley, George
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 14 Mar 1884; 27 May [1885]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: Champneys, Basil
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 3 Dec [1884?]; 20 May 1885
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: Cleghorn, John
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Oct 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: Dunthorne, Robert
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 6 Feb 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: Fawcett, Henry
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Jan 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: Gurney, Edmund
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Feb 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: Holmes, Timothy
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Jan 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS
Sender: James, Henry
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): n.d. [1883-5]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS