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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: Bauer, Juliette
Recipient: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Letters: 2
Date(s): 13 Dec 1846; 1 n.d.
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c1 Female
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Coleridge, Sir John Duke, Baron Coleridge
Letters: 3
Date(s): 10 Apr 1879 - 13 May 1879
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Copies. Recipient is Lord Chief-justice of England.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Dennel, Charles F.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Jan 1852
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Copy.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Dickens, Charles
Letters: 23
Date(s): [Apr 1848] - 18 Jul 1895
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Note: Rough drafts.
Additional item added September 2017: a photocopy of a letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens [18 July 1895] containing Clarke's thoughts on Chapter XIII 'The Fellow of No Delicacy' of Dicken's 'Tale of Two Cities'.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Gigliucci, Porzia, Countessa
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Jan 1884
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Gigliucci, Valeria, Countessa
Letters: 1
Date(s): 18 Jun 1892
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: In Tennyson's "Robin Hood and Maid Marian".
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Gilchrist, Anne
Letters: 4
Date(s): 12 Nov 1882 - 13 Feb 1885
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Rough drafts. In Gilchrist envelope.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Holsworth, G.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 May 1868
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Rough draft.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Hunt, James Henry Leigh
Letters: 3
Date(s): Spring 1857 - 25 Apr 1858
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Rough drafts.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Jerrold, Douglas William
Letters: 4
Date(s): 11 Oct 1849 - 23 Feb 1850
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c1 Female
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
Recipient: Novello, Clara Anastasia (aft. Countessa Gigliucci)
Letters: 5
Date(s): 22 May 1877 - 2 Mar 1893
Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection
Category: 19c2 Female