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INDEX/LETTERS/13243

19 Nov 1880

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INDEX/LETTERS/25974

1856

With an autograph of Emily Patmore.

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INDEX/LETTERS/3172

10 Mar 1895

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INDEX/LETTERS/3173

19 Dec 1895

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11 Jan 1881 - 9 Nov 1896

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

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19 Apr 1881

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5 Feb 1884

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INDEX/LETTERS/7677

11 Sep 1883

Addressed "My dear Sir".