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Total number of records: 6
Sender: Bullen, Arthur Henry
Recipient: Shorter, Clement
Letters: 2
Date(s): 19 Mar 1908; 23 Mar 1908
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 4
Note: About Miss Byerley's school and Mrs Gaskell's account of Clopton House. Bound with a typescript of Mrs Gaskell's "Clopton Hall".
Sender: Gaskell, Margaret
Recipient: Shorter, Clement
Letters: 5
Date(s): 17 Mar 1908 - 25 Nov 1909
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 16, in volume lettered "Clement K. Shorter Correspondence. Relating to Mrs E.C. Gaskell."
Note: Explanation of the following two letters,which are copies of extracts from letters concerning Mrs Gaskell: 1) From Marianne Lumb whose mother adopted Mrs Gaskell and brought her up. The letter is to Mrs Lumb and pleads with her to take this step. 2) Extract from a letter of Mr Stevenson's second wife (ie. Mrs Gaskell's step-mother) to Mrs Lumb at Knutsford, telling of Mrs Gaskell's devotion in nursing her father during his last illness. Details of Mrs Gaskell's visit to Germany and France; reply to Clement Shorter's request for information about her mother's courtship and marriage; (dictated) the relationship between Mrs Gaskell and her aunt, Mrs Lumb; arrangements for a meeting with Clement Shorter.
Sender: Holland, Marianne (nee Gaskell; Mrs Thurstan Holland)
Recipient: Shorter, Clement
Letters: 1
Date(s): 10 Dec [1914]
Location: BC MS 19c Gaskell, MS 16, bound in volume lettered: "Clement K. Shorter Correspondence. Relating to Mrs E.C. Gaskell"
Note: Unable to give information concerning Mrs Gaskell's brother, John Stevenson; her sister, Meta, left directions for her papers to be burnt by her solicitors. There is also a letter from Meta Gaskell's solicitors refusing to give the information Mr Shorter has requested.
Sender: Waller, A.R.
Recipient: Shorter, Clement
Letters: 2
Date(s): 15 Dec 1903; n.d.
Location: BC Gen q in George Crabbe, "A Collection of Articles and Reviews" lettered: GEORGE CRABBE MISCELLANIES
Note: Referring to the publication of Crabbe's poems. Thanks for some information concerning George Crabbe.
Sender: Bullock, J. M.
Recipient: Shorter, Clement
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Shorter correspondence
Note: About 'Buckinghamshire', Shorter's work.
Sender: James, Norman George Brett
Recipient: Shorter, Clement
Letters: 1
Date(s): 29 May 1910
Location: BC Shorter correspondence
Note: Concerns 'Buckinghamshire', Shorter's work.