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Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Boulton, Harold
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Jul 1906
Location: BC bound in volume lettered "Autograph letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane. Vol. I. 1906-07"
Note: Declining to serve on a committee and stating his reasons. A copy in Sir William Watson's own hand. Enclosed in a letter to John Lane dated /06 and bound with it.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Lane, John
Letters: 100
Date(s): 1906 - 1916
Location: BC bound in three volumes lettered: "Autograph Letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane"
Note: Included are eighteen undated letters to which conjectural dates have been assigned. Bound with typed transcripts.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: [Editor of "The Times"]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 Jan 1916
Location: BC bound in volume: "Autograph Letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane. Vol. III. 1915-1916"
Note: Calls attention to the quotation, without acknowledgement, of some lines of his in two articles published that day.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Willett, ( )
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Sep 1915
Location: BC bound in volume: Autograph Letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane. Vol. III. 1915-1916"
Note: Refers to circumstance connected with the volume "The Glory of Belgium" and to the publication of his next volume of poems, and requests further particulars of a portrait in Mr Willett's care.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Spender, Harold
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Jun 1902
Location: BC
Note: The public idea of himself and his relation to "unpopular causes" especially with reference to the South African war.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Jun 1917
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Watson, Sir William
Letters: 14
Date(s): 21 Jun 1880 - 15 Dec 1916
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In vol. SIR WILLIAM WATSON
Note: All except one, dated 27 February 1882, are typewritten transcripts. Thanks for W's "Princes Quest"; sending W's poems to editor at New York, but they may be "of too exclusively a literary interest"; reply to W. on word "agonise"; thanks for article in "Illustrated London News"; W's poem in "Spectator" best Shelley anniversary has produced; invitation to lunch with RE and Arthur Symons; lecture by W at London Institution; (1912) W's "The Heralds of the Dawn"; "I am struck by the wonderful purity of your writing; delighted poetry of the mind and poetry of the soul; (1916) G's retirement from House of Lords; pleased with "Retrogression", G.C. Benson; thanks for "Pencraft", offers to send "Father and Son".