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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: Lane, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC in volume: "Autograph Letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane. Vol. III. 1915-1916"
Note: Concerns the provisional alteration of a sonnet.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: [an employee of John Lane, publisher]
Letters: 2
Date(s): 18 Sep 1914; 13 Dec 1914
Location: BC in volume lettered: "Autograph Letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane. Vol. II. 1913-1914"
Note: First letter, expressing annoyance at errors in the typed copies of some of his poems. Second letter, concerning the possible publication of a volume of prose criticism.
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: [Land, John]
Letters: 2
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC bound in "Autograph Letters. Sir William Watson to John Lane. Vol. III. 1915-1916"
Note: 1) Concerning an article on his [Watson's] poetry by Francis Bickley, who "had apparently not made acquaintance with" his prose. Incomplete: sheets 1-2 wanting. 2) Includes an appraisal of Francis Bickley as critic and refers to an editorial note in "The Bookman" on his own position as a critic of international affairs. Wanting first sheet.
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: 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: 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".
Sender: Watson, Sir William
Recipient: Dennis, John
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Misc. letters 2