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1. Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Oratory) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, referring to books he has read and not read; Alfred William Garrett; Baillie and a fellowship; Ruskin's new book; Aristotle; his study of the violin; his health; his teaching; his mother's opinion of him taking religious orders; Mrs Cunliffe & other acquaintances. Requests help in securing a tutorship.


Date:: 1868-02-12
Type/Formats:: Text — Correspondence
Contributors:: Curran, Constantine Peter, 1880-1972 — Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 — Baillie, Alexander William Mowbray, 1843-1921

2. Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, in which he refers to a recent letter from Baillie and discusses 'the Catholic principle' and Catholicism.


Date:: 1865-09-10/1865-09-12
Type/Formats:: Text — Correspondence
Contributors:: Curran, Constantine Peter, 1880-1972 — Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 — Baillie, Alexander William Mowbray, 1843-1921

3. Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (University College, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing the death of Martin Geldart; friends at Oxford who died by suicide. Mentions Geldart's autobiography. Refers to his collection of letters; his correspondence with Baillie; John Hannah and MacFarlane; his melancholy; Gladstone; and his work in Ireland.


Date:: 1885-04-24/1885-05-17
Type/Formats:: Text — Correspondence
Contributors:: Curran, Constantine Peter, 1880-1972 — Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 — Baillie, Alexander William Mowbray, 1843-1921

4. Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Blunt House, Croydon) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, discussing his reading and writing; the writing of poetry of 'inspiration'; Parnassianism; 'The Odyssey' and Homer.


Date:: 1864-09-10/1864-09-11
Type/Formats:: Text — Correspondence
Contributors:: Curran, Constantine Peter, 1880-1972 — Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 — Baillie, Alexander William Mowbray, 1843-1921

5. Letter from Gerard Manley Hopkins (Manresa House, Roehampton, S. W.) to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, making arrangements to meet and telling Baillie to include Strachan, if he so wishes.


Date:: 1870-05-11
Type/Formats:: Text — Correspondence
Contributors:: Curran, Constantine Peter, 1880-1972 — Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 — Baillie, Alexander William Mowbray, 1843-1921