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BC 19c Gosse D-1 GOS

1870

Publisher's catalogue (32p), dated July 1870, at end.

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INDEX/LETTERS/3542

10 Jun 1868 - 16 Nov 1910

Letter of literary likes and dislikes; further literary preferences; discussion of a possible collaboration; discussion of a madrigal by Gosse; letter enclosing a sonnet; "A London Eclogue"; concerning an invitation not kept; the proposed book, "Sonets, Songs and Madrigals"; trip to Torquay and Maidencombe; concerning a lost statement; refutation to critic of "Sonnet and Madrigals". Included also is MS "A London Eclogue", dated February 1869, and a sonnet "On My Bower at Tottenham".

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INDEX/LETTERS/3543

2 Feb 1870

Not in printed catalogue.

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INDEX/LETTERS/3544

13 Mar 1868 - 23 Mar 1874

Revised entry. One letter is incomplete - last 2 pp. only. February 1871? Visits with Swinburne and Rossetti; mutual criticism of poetry; rambles in Odcombe, enclosing a sonnet; from Sandhurst, enclosing a madrigal; plans for the collaboration progressing; sonnets of Wordsworth; letter written after illness; Elizabethan dramatist, and "Clarissa Harlowe"; a birthday letter; Jonson, and Drummond's "Notes on his Conversations"; appointment at the British Museum; monetary arrangement about the collaboration; arrangement of the poems for print; at the opera; a first criticism of the book; Dicken's death, and Rossetti' poetry; MacMillan refuses to publish; criticizing a poem; final contents of the book; trip to Scotland; more arrangements, and Christina Rossetti; trip to Maidenhead planned; Chatterton, Blaikie's trip to Devon; arrival of the proofs; lacks of critical response; news of Blaikie's engagement; evening with Swinburne; Swinburne again; an accident; and O'Shaughnessy's new poems.

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INDEX/LETTERS/3869

3 Jun 1868

Not in printed catalogue.

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INDEX/LETTERS/4766

14 May 1870

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INDEX/LETTERS/68

28 Jun 1895 - 17 Aug 1915

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INDEX/LETTERS/969

18 Mar 1914