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Sender: Brandes, Georg
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 66
Date(s): 9 Jun 1873 - 25 Dec 1913; 11 n.d. Also 1 fragment.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Sender: Brandes, Georg
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): 21 Jun 1895; 11 Jul 1895
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In folder under SHORT HISTORIES OF LITERATURE
Sender: James, Henry
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 245
Date(s): 2 Aug [1882] - 9 Jul 1915
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Letter of 1 July 1894: enclosed is one to William Dean Howells dated the same day. 13 volumes. The letters are couched in a familiar strain and on occasion have an affectionate commencement, such as "My dear Philomel", and "Dear diminutive Edmund". Some of the later ones are typed. There are some telegrams and cards. Contemporaries mentioned include Besant, Lowell, Morison, Philip Henry Gosse (the father with an account of his death), Whistler, Robert Louis Stevenson, Swinburne, the death of James' sister, Zola, Lady Wolseley, Jusserand, Hagberg Wright, Walter Pater, "The wretch Oscar Wilde", Andrew Lang, President Cleveland (the Venezuela incident), Du Maurier, Arthur Benson, Kipling, Sargent (for a drawing), Rupert Brooke, Brandes, Wells, Leslie Stephens, Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) Alma-Tadema Harland. Many of the letters are about appointments for meeting. There are but few references to events of historical importance, such the South African War ("a nightmare") and the war of
1914-1918. Lady Gosse is called "Mrs Nelly". There is a supplementary volume containing references to Henry James' death and funeral, etc. These letters are entered separately. This final volume contains the order of the funeral service at Chelsea Old Church.
Sender: Wells, Herbert George
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 19
Date(s): 2 Oct 1897 - [2 Oct 1912]; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: In a letter dated 2 October 1897, Wells writes: "I am delighted to find you think well of my story and that you read my work of the "Invisible Man". I've had the greatest doubts. I've scarcely any facility in story building, and simple as the thing seems it cost me a vast deal of labour. After it was sold and within three weeks of its serial printing I discovered so much clumsiness that I had to take it to pieces and reconstruct it. Since which I have funked reading it. So that your good opinion is an immense relief to me". Of Gosse's "Father and Son" Wells writes: "... This thing isn't a book that can be fettered by any of the common phrases. It lives, it breathes, it is warm and kind like a friend ... One could go on with a good appetite to the rest of your autobiography". Thanks for comments on the "Invisible Man" and the "War of the Worlds"; life at Sandgate; President of the Goncourt Academy;the Appletons as publishers; thanks for good opinions; dancing; enquiry about Brandes;
two visits to Denmark, "Father and Son"; McKenna's Bill; against literary academies; Mrs Garnett. The envelopes are attached in most cases.