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Indexes21
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Letters Database21
Brotherton Collection4
English Literature3
Herbert Read Collection1

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folklore1
mythology1
english poetry1
english literature1
animism1
anthropology1

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Hardy, Thomas26
Clodd, Edward14
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)3
Greenwood, Frederick3
Gosse, Edmund2
Shorter, Clement King2
Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)2
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-19051
Barnes, William (1801-1886)1
Henniker, Florence1

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Archive Collection

Edward Clodd, manuscripts, diaries and correspondence, with a collection of his printed books.

Clodd, Edward (1840-1930)

1875-1930

Comprises: (1) BOUND MSS of some of Clodd's books, comprising volumes entitled: Animism, Dreams, Evolution, The Evolution of Religion, Folklore, Jesus of Nazareth, Magic in Names, Miracle Plays, Myste...

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Clement K Shorter Archive

Shorter, Clement King (1857-1926)

1893-1927

Comprises: 31 boxes of correspondence with various people (the largest number of letters are from Edmund Gosse, Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards, and Augustine Birrell); and bound volumes as follows: ...

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Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Greenwood, Frederick

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 May 1905

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence. In Greenwood volume.

Note: Typed copy only.

Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 May 1905

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence. In Greenwood volume.

Note: With typed copy.


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Select poems of William Barnes

Barnes, William (1801-1886); Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

1922

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Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 Nov 1895

Location: BC. Gen, Hardy. In his "Jude", 1896.

Note: Hardy's views on marriage; the story of Jude "makes only an objective use of marriage & its superstitions as one, & only one, of the antagonistic forces in the tragedy".

Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 7 Oct 1898

Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Tom Tit Tot" [end, no.4]

Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Jan 1902

Location: BC. Gen,Hardy. In his "Well-beloved", 1897

Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Feb 1906

Location: BC. Gen, Hardy. In his "Dynasts", part 2, 1906

Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Apr [19]08

Location: BC. Shorter: in Hardy's "The Dynasts...Prologue...", bound [no.3] in "A Bookman's Hobby, Series 1"

Note: Declining a dinner invitation in support of the Rationalist movement, which he does however support; he is advising the local rector on acting some scenes from "The Dynasts".

Sender: Hardy, Thomas

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): [3 Dec 1909]

Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Grant Allen" [front endpaper]