Ashley MS A845, A846, A850, A854, A857, A858, A861, B862

Letters (9) and a postcard from Thomas Hardy to Edmund Gosse; 2 Aug. 1886-14 Feb. 1922. The principal subjects of the letters are thanks to Gosse for his review of Hardy's The Well-Beloved, 1897 (A846), literary censorship (A845), A. C. Swinburne's reaction to an article that had linked him and Hardy (A850), Hardy's Time's laughingstocks, 1909 (A854), his doubts as to whether to print the poems which eventually appeared as Satires of Circumstance, 1914 (A857), Granville Barker's production of his The Dynasts in Nov. 1914 (A857), the date of composition of his poem The Widow Betrothed (A858), the reception of his Moments of Vision, 1917 (A858), the proportion of his life spent writing prose and poetry respectively (A858), and the forthcoming publication of his Late Lyrics and Earlier, 1922 (B862). Printed in The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, 1978-1988, ed. R. L. Purdy and M. Millgate, passim. Ashley Library Catalogue, viii, p. 143; x, pp. 123-131; [ii, p. 177].

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