Identity area
Reference code
O./11.21
Title
Essay entitled ‘Elizabethan Flower Gardens’, by Edmund Gosse
Date(s)
- 1901 x 1928 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 booklet (22 x 18.5 cm), without a cover, containing 15 paper leaves, in a custom-made folder and slip-case, each covered with red cloth
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Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
The address at the head of the essay is 17 Hanover Terrace, Regent’s Park. It must therefore have been written some time after Gosse moved there in 1901. The essay was presented to the Library by Gosse’s son Philip Henry George Gosse in November 1941, shortly after he became a Fellow-Commoner of the College.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Philip Henry George Gosse
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The essay is in Gosse’s own hand, and his name is written at the head and at the end. On the front of the slip-case is stamped, ‘ELIZABETHAN FLOWER GARDENS | MSS. | — | EDMUND GOSSE’.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Foliated 1–15.
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Publication note
Published in Harper's Monthly Magazine, June 1905, pp. 138–46.