Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 5
Count of Collection group
Madrigals, songs and sonnets
Blaikie, John Arthur; Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
1870
Publisher's catalogue (32p), dated July 1870, at end.
Sender: Becker, J.L.T. [I.L.T.?]
Recipient: Blaikie, John Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 2 Feb 1870
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In BLAIKIE folder
Note: Not in printed catalogue.
In Gosse Correspondence.
Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Blaikie, John Arthur
Letters: 43
Date(s): 13 Mar 1868 - 23 Mar 1874
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Note: 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.
Sender: Curtis, Mary H.
Recipient: Blaikie, John Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Jun 1868
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Blaikie, John Arthur
Recipient: Gosse, Philip Henry
Letters: 1
Date(s): 14 May 1870
Location: BC Gosse correspondence