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Benson, Arthur Christopher22
Victoria Queen of Great Britain (1819-1901)10
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett10
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett Viscount (1852-1930)10
Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925)10
Gosse, Edmund5
Warre-Cornish, Blanche, (Mrs Francis Warre-Cornish)1
Wood, Butler1
Sturgis, Julian1
Ross, A.G.1

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Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Sadler, Michael E.

Letters: 2

Date(s): 13 Feb 1911 - 16 Feb 1911

Location: MS 1314

Note: MS.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Wood, Butler

Letters: 4

Date(s): 13 Jan 1915 - 14 May 1916

Location: BC Wood correspondence

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 13

Date(s): 12 Jan 1893 - 8 Jan 1918; 1 n.d. ["Saturday night"

Location: BC Gosse correspondence

Note: On the same sheet as the letter of 26 March [1894] is an autograph poem "The Yaffle", signed ACB. In the same envelope with the letter are two fragments (of letters?) in Benson's handwriting. The envelope is addressed to Edmund Gosse and is postmark-dated 26 March 1894. The letter of 17 May 1908, signed ACB, was formerly in the "unidentified" file. With the letters is a poem headed "With the Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton" in Benson's handwriting, signed with his initials, and dated at foot 4 July 1893. It is in an envelope addressed to Gosse with postmark-date 31 July 1893. Not in printed catalogue.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 1

Date(s): 27 Mar 1893

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In vol. SIR WILLIAM WATSON

Note: William Watson living quietly at Southend, and feeling injured. Has seen La Gallienne. Lane's terms for publishing. Offer of post at Wellington College.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 2

Date(s): 19 Feb 1894; [Feb 1894]. Also 1 fragment, n.d.

Location: BC Gosse correspondence.

Note: Not in printed catalogue.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 25

Date(s): 10 Sep 1896 - 3 Aug 1924

Location: BC Gosse correspondence

Note: A talk with his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury; on an agreement with the Archbishop; appointment; the Archbishop and Macmillan's; the Archbishop's death at Hawarden; funeral arrangements; clearing up at Lambeth, "My mother ... sends her love to you & Mrs Gosse"; cards of Latin verse on Hugh Walpole's book; serious illness, gratitude for kindness; regret for ungrateful and ungenerous behaviour; recuperating at Harrogate; contributions to the "Sunday Times"; reading "Father and Son" again, one "of the very best books of the time", Percy Lubock's new book; thanks for a perfect evening; invitation to the Pepys dinner; on the Trefoil; Gosse at 74, lady and dogs at Liverpool Street; Leslie Stephen - E.M. Forster - Yeats - Percy Lubbock; Haldane.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Feb 1902

Location: BC Gosse correspondence

Note: A letter enclosing another by Mr Julian Sturgis, discussing the possibility of helping a deserving authoress.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Ross, A.G.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 May 1919

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In 70th BIRTHDAY box

Sender: Sturgis, Julian

Recipient: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 Feb [1902]

Location: BC Gosse correspondence

Note: Incomplete letter. Enclosed in a letter from A.C. Benson to Gosse, dated 14 February 1902. The signature is added in Gosse's hand.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Warre-Cornish, Blanche, (Mrs Francis Warre-Cornish)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 5 Sep 1921

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In BENSON vol.

Note: About George Gissing; Harrogate; Blubberhouse.

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Ross, Alec G.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 May 1919

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In 70th BIRTHDAY box

Sender: Benson, Arthur Christopher

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 8

Date(s): 15 Oct 1906 - 9 Apr 1915

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence