Letter

Scope and Content

Letter to George Gissing from Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer. Gosse wrote occasional articles on Gissing's works and helped H.G. Wells to secure a pension on the Civil List for Gissing's sons (see Pierre Coustillas, London and the life of literature in late Victorian England: the diary of George Gissing (Lewisburg, USA: Bucknell University Press, 1978), p. 557 ).

Gosse writes: I greatly value the letter which you have had the kindness to send me. It confirms in the most authoritative manner an impression which I had formed more by intuition than experience. May I venture to say with how much interest and sympathy I follow your career and read your powerful and mournful studies of life? With sincere thanks for your valued letter.

Dated at 29 Delamere Terrace, Westbourne Square, [London] W.

Bibliography

Published in P.F. Mattheisen, et al., The collected letters of George Gissing, volume one, 1863-1880 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1990), p. 74 .