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Sender: Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 49
Date(s): 11 Jan 1881 - 9 Nov 1896
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Coventry Patmore published his first volume of poems in 1844, and later was an assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum. He formed intimate relations with Tennyson and Ruskin, and made the acquaintance of the pre-Raphaelite group, to whose organ, "The Germ", he contributed. Requests for theatre tickets and invitations for dinners and week-ends; "I live all my days in a wilderness of fair women, and long for some male chat". Frequent mention is made of favours and gifts received from Gosse. Many letters deal with the reactions of Patmore to the criticism of the literary world through various reviews and literary publications. "Your ... lectures must have been very much thrown away upon the Yankees who are not scholarly people". Mention is made of reviews and criticisms appearing in the "Athenaeum", "Saturday Spectator", "Guardian", "Fortnightly", "Standard", "Quarterly Review", "Saturday Review", "New Review", and "St James's". Mention is made of the first
appearance of certain of Sir Edmund Gosse's writings which were sent out to Patmore and in turn, of Patmore's writings sent to Gosse. There appear occasional compliments on Gosse's works and by inference it is to be seen that Gosse offered Patmore compliments in return. Contemporaries mentioned: Kegan Paul, Buxton Forman, Basil Champneys, Austin Dobson, J.D. Campbell. The last letters in the collection reveal Patmore's declining health and indicate the nature of his complaints. "I scarcely ever go to town now, as I can not travel alone".
Sender: Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Apr 1881
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. Inserted in "Living English Poets", 1883
Sender: Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Feb 1884
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GRAY MEMORIAL LETTERS