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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: Bowden, James

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 4

Date(s): 7 Oct 1910 - 20 Sep 1912

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

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: Hunt, Nat

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 3

Date(s): [Postmarked 4, 11 and 25 Jul 1926]

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Postmarked from Skipton and Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

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: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Huntington, Constant

Letters: 5

Date(s): 14 Jan 1933; 15 Jan 1933; 18 Jan 1933, 7 Jan 1951,

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Carbon copies with a letter to A.R. from Mrs Kitty Muggeridge, dated [14 Jan 1933], attached. Letter dated 7 Jan 1951 is accompanied by MS draft, letter dated 7 Feb 1951 is typed on back of Huntington's letter of 6th Feb

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: [Huth, Frederic ?]

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 16 Jan 1946

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Signature not clear, perhaps reads "Frederic Huth".

Sender: Inland Revenue

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 2

Date(s): 11 Oct 1927; 20 Oct 1927

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Personal signature of sender indecipherable.