Edmund Gosse: Letters to Charles Edmund Merrill, 1910-1924

RLIN ID No.

NYGG01-A26

Main Entry

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.

Title

Letters: to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924.

Physical Description

8 items (1 folder)

General Note

Title devised by cataloger.

Biographical/Historical Note

Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942.

Scope and Contents

Six ALS from Sir Edmund Gosse to Charles Edmund Merrill relate to Gosse’s edition of the Life and Letters of John Donne (1896) and Merrill’s edition of Donne’s Letter to Severall (sic) Persons of Honour (1910). Also a copy of a letter from Merrill to Edmund Gosse’s son Philip enclosing the letters for possible use in a projected book about Gosse and a reply from Philip Gosse. (The letters do not appear in the Life and Letters of Edmund Gosse published in 1931.)

Names

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928. Correspondence.

Merrill, Charles Edmund, 1877-1942. Correspondence.

Gosse, Philip. Correspondence.

Location

Grolier Club, 47 East 60^th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022-1098.

Collection Inventory

I. Autograph Letters Signed from Edmund Gosse to Charles Edmund Merrill:

23 June 1910 (4 p.)

27 June 1910 (3 p.)

Undated (2 p.)

19 July 1910 (3 p.)

14 January 1911 (with enclosure containing textual nots possibly in hand of

Merrill)

22 May 1924 (3 p.)

II. Typed letter (copy) from Merrill to Philip Gosse. 1 February 1929 (2 p.)

III. ALS from Philip Gosse to Merrill thanking him for the loan and indicating that the only letters from an

“American” he has received to date are from Henry James.