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Sender: Cust, Sir Lionel Henry
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 23 Jul 1926; 13 May 1927
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Photograph of a Swinburne letter enclosed; hopes that something may be done in the case of Milner.
Sender: Galsworthy, John
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Sep 1927
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. Inserted in his "The Show", 1925, Gen, GALSWORTHY
Note: Expresses concern at Gosse's illness and hopes for his thorough recovery.
Sender: Clifford, Sir Hugh
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 3
Date(s): 18 Jun 1902 - 20 Feb 1903
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Writing to suggest a date for luncheon; hopes for critism of his books; saying how much he enjoyed a luncheon-party.
Sender: Bottomley, Gordon
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 14 letters; 16 sheets; 11 envelopes
Date(s): 18 Aug 1915 - 28 Jan 1920
Location: BC Gosse correspondence [8?]
Note: Reminiscences, father and early home life, Sanhurst meeting with old Mrs Gosse in Devonshire, move to Silverdale owing to health; visit to Sturge Moore in Hampstead, hopes to meet Gosse; constant lung trouble makes meeting difficult; King Lear and Ainley, remembrances of Mrs Gosse and "your beautiful house"; (9 Jun 1916) hopes to meet G. at Coniston, "my dear Carmel as a suitable destination", "the dream cathedral that rises in the middle of the village"; thanks for gift; gratified to find himself next to Mr Baring, Swinburne; death of B's mother after Lancaster munitions explosions; (2 April 1918) "27 years since I first read an essay of yours ... and I still feel the same anticipatory delight when I see your name", "miserable about my dear friend Lascelles Abercrombie" (his mechanical war work sapping his poetic energy), Julian Grenfell; Abercrombie and Buchan; gratitude for being made known to Hardy; G's 70th birthday to whom he owes so much; Poe, Mrs Whitman.
Sender: Hutton, Richard Holt
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 5
Date(s): 12 Dec 1892 - 11 Mar 1893
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In vol., SIR WILLIAM WATSON
Note: Watson's mother should be told about his state. "I fear he is spending all the money that the Crown gave him", Watson was an entire stranger to me; terrible shock about Watson, has met his brother, help in getting a change for Watson, papers irritable about grant to him; Macmillan's may help; hope Watson will be placed in very kind and safe keeping, have ?50 to ?60 for him; (11 March 1893) "I have given him ?115, Town sent ?50 ... it has clearly all been waste ... very hopeless about his recovery".
Sender: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 10
Date(s): 7 Sep 1884 - 27 Nov 1890
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Oliver Wendell Holmes studied medicine at Harvard College and took the degree of M.D. in 1836. For years he contributed poems, essays and sketches to various newspapers and periodicals. In 1847 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, a positon he retained for thirty-five years. When "The Atlantic Monthly" was started in 1857 "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" began to appear, commencing in the first year of the journal's existence. Rarely have magazine articles attained such marvellous popularity. The keen psychological insight, the catholicity and depth of human sympathy displayed in them, the genial humour and the sparkling wit, the spontaniety of pathos and the lofty scorn of wrong and injustice, were unsurpassed in the literature of their time and place. Thanks for congratulation; appointment to meet at Boston, thanks for a volume of poems; hopes to visit Gosse's College and University; meeting at Cambridge; attending a dinner with the Chancellor of the Exchequer;
thanks for congratulations on his birthday, 1890.
Sender: Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (Mrs Reginald Walpole Craigie), (pseud. John Oliver Hobbes)
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 17
Date(s): [6 Jun 1898] - 5 Jun 1905
Location: BC Gosse correspondence, shelved in volume lettered JOHN OLIVER HOBBES
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Mrs Craigie was an American, educated in England, who married young and unhappily, but she was fortunate in having a very charming and rich father, who made a fortune by a world-advertised patent pill. His daughter was also his companion, and lived in his castle in the Isle of Wight. The ambitious authoress had every luxury money could obtain, even to a literary journal, "The Academy". On comedy writing; Mauprat and Donne; a sequel to "The School for Saints"; deep gratitude for letter about "Brigit"; thanks for incomplete delightful letters; willing to write on George Sand; Austin Dobson's poems; Life in Paris, where had met Seaman; novel by Mrs Eustis; hopes something can be done for Joseph Conrad; "as for the birthday, it must have its own proper letter from your completely infatuated grateful Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie"; theatre business; article on "notre cher Jeremy"; encloses "my little satire"; lack of appreciation of comedy and satire.
Sender: Norris, William Edward
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 63
Date(s): 31 May 1891 - 26 Mar 1923
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: William Edward Norris was a barrister in the Inner Temple in 1874, but never practised. He wrote some thirty novels between 1877 and 1925, when he died at his home in Torquay. Meeting in London; Pierre Loti; distressed by a tragedy; golf article; Balestier; read G's "Narcisse"; membership of National Club; Egerton Castle; (1894) "The Swan"; N and his dogs on Christmas Day, President Cleveland; Archbishop and Deans, funeral attire; (24 October 1896) Henry James, G's son to South America, Kipling dinner with N. at Torquay; thanks for praise of book; Christmas solitude, "Aphrodite"; G. to Torquay, golf; Augustus Hare; Henry James at Torquay; Bateman, Heinemann's nuptials at Rome; (1899) illness; (22 July 1900) motor car and evening frocks, N. not a cynic; life at Torquay, Henry James, Bateman, "Kim"; (1902) G's Scandinavian research, Wisby likes Swedes, Lady Fitzgerald's death, going to Naples, Ceylon, Tasmania; leaving his house; (1 January 1903) two days in Rome, Naples, Syracuse to Malta
which he doesn't like, Henry James' "Wings of the Dove"; Colombo, Kandy, gout attack at Melbourne, stayed with Governor of Victoria, racing at Melbourne, Government house at Hobart, likes people and scenery of Tasmania better than Australia, Melbourne ugly, silence of Henry James, G's "Jeremy Taylor", Sir Hector Macdonald's suicide; (2 October 1904) from Malvern, Lowndes, off to Buxton, article in Pall Magazine on N. as a novelist, alleged decay of English novel, Henry James in New Hampshire, old age; (4 November 1905) Henry James, G. in Italy; Hewlett's "Fond Adventures"; (10 November 1906) "knavish tricks of these rascally Radical Ministers ...", "C.B. and his crew", navy's weakness; Leslie Stephens; racing; wish to meet Anthony Hope; circle of friends growing smaller, clings to Torquay, G. to Montpelier, N. to Cannes, Rhoda Broughton; (18 November 1908) N. at Eaton; Christmas in Wilts., golf, nothing from Henry James; G. entertaining Princess of Wales; (12 July 1910) anxious about
Henry James, future state of existence, cricket at Lord's; Henry James right to go to America; Henry James "mind more or less unhinged"; G. to Provence, N. to Scotland; Daudet volume, "this vile Election", "after us the deluge"; (28 December 1912) Henry James and shingles, Andre Gide, European situation and Austria, Bonar Law, Carson, G. to Locerno; (21 October 1914) Not Sheringham cruisers offshore. "I didn't want this war"; present struggle no element of finality, universal obligatory service, cannot crush Germany unless Slavs do a generation hence, Young, Hewlett, Henry James, Princess Salm; am not a "violent pessimist", Bateman, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu; (22 December 1915) "these awful times", Lloyd George's croakings, poison, Asquith, Haig; death of James, "the war killed him"; (1920) Henry James's letters, Lloyd George's maladresse, and the "pompous bounder Curzon". "Poor silly old League of Nations"; (6 February 1921) Balfour, Harold Begbie; resignation from golf club, G. in "Sunday
Times"; Windham Club; (1923) Torquay rivelling Blackpool and Margate, triumph of socialism.