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Edmund Gosse Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Son of a zoologist, Edmund Gosse was an English poet and literary and art critic. From 1884 to 1890, he was Clark Lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1904 he was appointed librarian to the House of Lords.
The collection consists of selected material of Gosse, the majority of which is some correspondence with George A. Armour, Princeton Class of 1877. Most of this correspondence discusses other authors or poets and Gosse's different works. Other correspondents include friends and prominent literary figures such as Aldington, Henry Holt, Foote, Ford Madox Ford, R. Le Gallienne, Robert Underwood Johnson, Charles de Kay, Dante G. Rossetti, and Thomas James Wise. In addition, there are two manuscript poems by Gosse, "Fresh with all Airs of Woodland Brooks . . .," presented to the poet Austin Dobson in 1878, and "Ballade of La Belle Disparue" (1894), as well as an engraving of Gosse presented to George Armour; and printed material.
Folders are arranged in accession order.
The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
The engraving of Gosse was a gift of Norman Armour, Princeton Class of 1925, on October 21, 1963 .
Correspondence with George Armour was a gift or Norman Armour on June 7, 1963 .
Letter to R. U. Johnson was purchased on March 13, 1968 .
Letter to de Kay was purchased on April 19, 1974 .
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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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