xt7qjq0stw34_3826 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Addington Symonds letter to [Gleeson] White text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Addington Symonds letter to [Gleeson] White 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_37/Folder_79/Multipage13088.pdf 1893 January 10 1893 1893 January 10 
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Peal accession no. 10583h. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter. Accompanied by a letter from Royal Cortissoz to Dr. [Herman T.] Radin 1942 April 30.
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Dear Mr. White

Your request needs no apology. I am very glad to
meet so reasonable & to me flattering wishes

of a young man & fellow-writer. If I had known
more about him I wOuld have sent my autograph in
the form of a bit of original writing. Is

Royal Cortissoz his real name or an anagram? And
what line of work doeshe follow ?

Please tell him that he ought to send me his
portrait in return. I have a great collection.of the
pictures of the young here, who help me much by
their bright & sometimes beautiful faces.

I wish my own work in "In the Key of Blue" were
more worthy of the charming cover & excellent
typOgraphy. Please tell Mr. Ricketts how very
much I admire his design. It is a pity) I think,
that some copies have not been issued in blue.

The pieces in the book I care for most are
extracts from very early diaries, about

Clifton & Sutton Court. It so happens that
they are full of bluebells. So the cover strikes
the right note in my judgment.

Very truly yours

John Addington Symonds

 

 ROYAL CORTISSOZ
230 WEST 4|?! STREET
NEW YORK

upril 30th,I942.

Dear Dr.Radin;

It is shameful that I should have taken so long to respond to your very interesting
laud letter. out I am subject to an inexorable pressure of things and my private corres-
pondence suffers unavoidably.

I have been intensely interested in the letter written by John Addington Symonds,
of which you were kind enough to send me a copy. It Inn woke old memories,especially those
of the years long ago when I first began to explore Italy and owed so much to him and his
uenaissance studies. I developed a positive cult for Symonds and I remember how once’when
l was in England,after his death,I got into communication with his daughter,Mrs.Vaughan,and
had some thought of visiting her;to talk about her father. nut the distance was too great,I
being in London’and she far away in one of the counties,so that dream went a~glimmering.

About the letter to "Dear Mr.“hite." hb,it wasn't utanford White,though,by the way,
E began life in his office,spending six years of my youth there. ihe White of the letter
must have been the late Gleason White,the first editor of'the London Studio. Bufore that
engagement he spent a year over here as editor of the long—since deceased Art Amateur. We
became great friends and I used always to see him when l was in London. I forget the de-
tails but i judge that 1 must have talked about wanting a photografh it ofJLymonds and he
must have unertaken to get it for me,* ibfer from the letter. The photograph reached me
with Symonds's signature and the date,danuary,I893,the year in which "In the Key of Blue"
was published. my copy is in blue,with the design by n{:§:l::"ififlggi§;‘l4;;;:3;:'::§ie
over his wondering if Royal Cortissoz was my real name or an anagram. It reminds me of
what happened once in a London lodging house when I signed the usual book. "What inaaiwitéa
institution are you travelling for," the landlord asked. J'ou know "Royal: is never a given

name in England.

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I grow garrulous'but I must tell you one more Symonds episode. Long inf?“ ago I

 

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230 WEST 4I§T STREET
NEW YORK

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acquired his Carlo Gozzi," I being an eighteenth century as well as a renaissance man.
in his preface Uymonds told how he had had to borrow the third volume of Gozzi's memoirs,

that being missing from his set. «nd one swimmer I found the three volumes of the or'ginal

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edition in Olschki's shop in Venice and bought [it for,J- think,fifty francs! At Sp‘thoever's’

in rl'ome'i also picked up llaurice Sand's "Masques et bgffons: the plates from which
oymonds had used inhis ‘Gozzi.’ but I must stop,only again thanking you for umibj writing
and for letting me have a copy of the bymo'bds letter. It brings back my youth.
Sincerely yours,
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