Item 7 - Letter from Edmund Gosse to W. Aldis Wright

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29 Delamere Terrace, W.—Is coming down on Friday, as he wants to do some work in the library. Hopes he will be lodged near Wright again.

(On the back is a list by Wright of notable words in the Life of the Duke of Newcastle (1667).)

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29 Delamere Terrace | W.
May 5. 1885.

Dear Aldis Wright

I am coming down on Friday evening, in time for dinner, as I want to do some work in the library on Saturday morn[in]g.

Do you know where I am to be lodged? I wish it might again be near you.

Sincerely yours
Edmund Gosse

[Notes by Wright on the back:]

Life of the Duke of Newcastle. 1667.

resent 77
Butts (a game) 80)
play the Rook 80
invective 145
rant 149
which before they came to be marriageable, she married a third husband. 154
ensnarled 171.
pottering 194

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Letter-head of the Board of Trade, W. The missing letters of a word abbreviated by a superscript letter have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} By Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Wright probably consulted the copy in Trinity College Library (IV.13.2), which was presented to the College by the author. Pepys criticized the book as ‘the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle writ by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him,’ yet Charles Lamb eulogized it as a work for which ‘no casket is rich enough, no case sufficiently durable to honour and keep soft such a jewel’. An edition by C. H. Firth was published in 1886.

This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.