[Letter] 1908 February 18, Regent's Park [to] Barclay Squire / Edmund Gosse.

The letter is written on 17 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. letterhead. See also another letter from Gosse in the collection as well as a letter from Alfred Pollard which discusses Gosse's manuscript corrections, and a letter from infamous literary historian and forger Thomas J. Wise regarding Gosse's remarks on Shelley in the _Sunday Times_ .

Gosse thanks Barclay for his "extremely kind" letter about Gosse's _Father and son, biographical recollections_ in which he details his relationship with his strict father and his journey into the literary world. Gosse responds at length to Barclay's mention of the "very curious intimacy" which existed in correspondence between Gray and Algarotti. Gosse observes that though they never met, the two men wrote about "indecent matters with that curious... characteristic of leanred persons in the 18th century," but hesitates to offer an opinion on the "shocking" nature of that correspondence until he sees the letters. A literary historian, translator, and critic, Gosse worked in the library at the British Museum (1865-1875), translated Ibsen, edited Swinburne's letters, wrote about his travels in America, lectured on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge (1885-1890), and was the librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914).