[1] MSS collection, Brotherton Library, Leeds.

[2] MSS collection, Brotherton Library, Leeds.

[3] Cf. Encyclopaedic Britannica  (9^th edn.) vol. xviii, pp.345-348, s.v. “Pastoral”.

[4] For example, WRS wrote, “But when you speak of Auerbach & Immermann why not name the far greater genius of Fritz Reuter with his beautiful “Ut mine Stromtid”?

[5] First published (anonymously) by Heinemann in 1907.

[6] A post gained for him through the good offices of Charles Kingsley, a friend of Gosse’s father, Philip.

[7] Quarterly Review, vol.186 (October, 1886) pp.289-329.

[8] Ib., p.289. The tone of these comments must have recalled to WRS the onslaught made in 1876 upon his own article, “Bible”, for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

[9] Ib., p.293.

[10] Ib., p.300.

[11] Charteris, Evan, The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse (London, Wm Heinemann, Ltd., 1931) p.193.

[12] Booth B. A. & Mehew E. (eds.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol. 6. p.141. The “Gosse” thermometer had been a gift from  Gosse’s wife, Ellen.

[13] Charteris, op. cit., p.196..

[14] Booth & Mehew, op. cit., p.104f.

[15] MSS Collection, Brotherton Library, Leeds. WRS to Gosse, 09.11.1890 and 15.11.1890.

[16] Ibid., WRS to Gosse, 07.03.94.