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Sender: Scott, William Bell
Recipient: Huffer, Franz, Dr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 23 Feb 1871
Location: BC MS 19c Rossetti. In volume lettered "Autograph Letters from Rossetti to Huffer"
Note: Enclosing three books and a limerick on Rossetti.
Sender: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Recipient: Scott, William Bell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 Nov 1847
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Note: Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Gosse, Edmund
Recipient: Scott, William Bell
Letters: 7
Date(s): 24 Mar 1870 - 24 Sep 1875
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Not in printed catalogue.
Sender: Scott, William Bell
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 15
Date(s): 27 Feb [1871] - 15 Sep 1882
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Compares Gosse's sonnets with those of D.G. Rossetti, who is translating Michelangelo, visit to the poet Millar; advice to Gosse about composing sonnets; (17 March 1872) editing for Routledge a series of poets in single volumes: "my editing will not be very onerous ... and the pleasure [of illustrating] would have no draw-back did I not foresee such a binding as will make me cross to the other side of the street when the volume appears", D.G. Rossetti on Gosse's translation, Marzial's book, Redi's sonnets; Gosse can expect no instantaneous action on the part of reviewers, Simcox and D.G. Rossetti's appreciation of Gosse's writing, includes a poem on the approaching nuptials; (21 June 1874) mentions talk with Reid of the British Museum about project of an assistant keeper to the Prints Room, letter from D.G. Rossetti who thinks that Gosse will have a position as a critic; horrified by attack on Gosse by a highwayman; (27 September 1875) Swinburne and Mansion House banquet, pleasure on
Gosse's appointment [as translator to the Board of Trade], good wishes on Gosses's mariage; thanks for letters, comments on Gosse's plan to offer his papers to the "Athenaeum" or the "Academy", Gosse's current interest in reading, Swinburne's "grind about the Brontës"; decline of the Appleton press, Swinburne's visit to Gosse; acknowledges receipt of proofs, but declines comment, receipt of volume of Mrs Moulton "in Brown-Rossetti vortex", illness of Swinburne; (14 November 1879) thanks for "New Poems"; offers assistance in writing about D.G. Rossetti; editorship of the "Oxford and Cambridge Magazine", thanks for letter on Scott's "Harvest Home": "The acknowledgement of the worthiness of my book in what I consider the essentials in poetry as in life, has been a great consolation", further remarks on Gosses's Rossetti paper in refernce to Rossetti's use of medicines and drugs; requests copy of the "Fortnightly" with Lord Houghton's review of "Bothwell" in it, has read Swinburne's book and
speaks of it favourably.
Sender: Littledale, Richard Frederick
Recipient: Scott, William Bell
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Mar 1876
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Note: Not in printed catalogue.