1.Two Letters from Edmund Gosse to W. T. Watts[-Dunton], the earlier asking Watts to review Gosse's Firdausi in Exile and other Poems, 1885, the later mentioning A. C. Swinburne's poem 'The Commonweal', and complaining of Swinburne's treatment of Go... 1885-1901
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