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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
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| Gosse, Edmund | 1327 |
| Shorter, Clement King | 405 |
| Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry | 311 |
| Thwaite, Anthony | 219 |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | 211 |
| Ransome, Arthur | 208 |
| Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905 | 207 |
| Lay, Cecil Howard | 200 |
| Clodd, Edward | 165 |
| Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst (Nee Borthwick) | 154 |
Related people: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Related people: Hughes, Lilian
Size and medium: 4 letters
Date(s): 30 May 1891 - 17 Oct 1893
Related material: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Description: Contains three letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Lilian Hughes, and one letter to Charles Hughes.
Letter dated 30 May 1881 from Cowden Clarke to Lilian Hughes discusses Lilian Hughes' book 'Off the Reel', containing 'Hearts of Oak' and 'New Friends'.
Letter dated 10 Feb 1882 from Cowden Clarke to Lilian Hughes mentions visits from Hughes' relatives: her Uncle Edward John Broadfield and her brother Alfred Hughes. Also discusses Sir Thomas Lawrence's painting of Mrs Siddons.
Letter dated 27 Oct 1882. Cowden Clarke thanks Lilian Hughes for sending her photo-portrait. Discusses Hughes' recent betrothal and Cowden-Clarkes' views on marriage.
Letter dated 17 Oct 1893 Cowden Clarke thanks Charles Hughes for his gift of the Illustrated account of Robert Browning's 'A Blot in the Scutcheon' as performed in Manchester, and reminisces about watching the play when it was performed under William Macready's management in 1843.
Sender: Hunt, Frazier
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 May 1929
Location: BC Ransome Box 2 [small literary notebooks & other literary MSS & TSS]
Note: Returning the TS of "The Unofficial Side".
Sender: Ransome, Arthur
Recipient: Hunt, Geoffrey
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Dec 1957
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6
Note: Carbon copy.
Sender: Hunter, H.
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 27 Dec 1945
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2
Sender: Huntington, Constant
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 4
Date(s): 5 Nov 1932 - 8 Feb 1951
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2
Note: Typed.
Sender: Husband, P.
Recipient: Ransome, Cyril
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Jun 1896
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C10; Cyril Ransome Envelope
Note: Sender is secretary to the Council of the Yorkshire College.
Sender: Hutchinson & Co.
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): [Oct 1930]
Location: BC Ransome; loose at front of blue cuttings album "Reviews" (unboxed, on shelf)
Note: Printed. Accompanying a book for review.
Sender: Inland Revenue
Recipient: O'Neill, John Joseph
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Feb 1924
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C3; together with a copy of O'Neill's reply and his letter to A.R.
Note: Sender is director of "Manchester Guardian". Concerning A.R.'s country of residence.
Sender: Ransome, Arthur
Recipient: Inland Revenue
Letters: 3
Date(s): 17 Oct 1927 - 16 Jun 1962
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6
Note: Typed.
Sender: Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905
Recipient: Ransome, Cyril
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Aug 1895
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C10; Cyril Ransome Envelope
Sender: Ransome, Arthur
Recipient: J.B. Lippincott Company
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 Sep 1962
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6
Note: Carbon copy.
Sender: Jack, Edwin
Recipient: Ransome, Arthur
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Jan 1931
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2