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Sender: Baring, Maurice
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): [Feb 1894]
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Headed "Monday". See also the letter from A.H.F. Boughey to Gosse dated 18 February 1894. Not in printed catalogue.
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: Baring, Maurice
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Aug 1925
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In GOLDEN WEDDING box
Sender: Baring, Maurice
Recipient: Gosse, Teresa
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Sep 1929
Location: BC Gosse correspondence