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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.
Title: Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
Title: Motto
Author: Pope, Alexander
Attribution: Pope's Universal Prayer
Date(s): 1715
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: The final stanza of Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer", urging praise of God, appended to James Merrick's "Benedicite"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Recommending wine as the remedy for the malign influence of the dog star
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the transience of worldly goods, used as heading to BCMSV 6064
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Proverb on the relationship between wealth and fate, used as heading to BCMSV 6065
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Single couplet saying that he dare not declare his love to his beloved
Title: Cato's soliloquy. Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture; in his hand
Plato's book on the immortality of the soul. A drawn sword on the table by
him.
Author: Addison, Joseph
Date(s): 1713 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Cato's soliloquy from Addison's play "Cato," V.1, arguing for the immortality
of the soul after death, while contemplating suicide. At end, "23rd December
1740, B.Coles"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Attribution: B.C.; [Latin]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Moralising epigram on behaviour towards others; translating preceding Latin
verses
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin ?
Date(s): 1741 ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Witty couplet on love being fire, translated from preceding Latin verses,
included in a prose letter to a friend with a present of tobacco. At end, "B.
Coles, 1 January 1740/1."
Title: [unknown]
Author: Coles, Benjamin
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Humorous couplet added by Coles to the prose remark "The grocers have a
common saying, when Ferdinando went to catch the devil he baited his hook with
a grocer," included in his autobiography.
Sender: Anderson, Charles
Recipient: Clodd, Edward
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Nov 1874
Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Childhood of the World" [no.45]
Title: The snail
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A Welch curate
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Lighthearted poem in which a Welsh curate praises a snail and wishes he too
could move his house, but is then forced by hunger to eat the snail. At end,
"25th February 1740/1".
Title: To Miss Walter of Grosvenor-Square on her birth-day, June 17, 1766
Author: Scott, William
Attribution: William Scott, St Sepulchre's, Snow-Hill, June 16, 1766 [at end]
Date(s): 1766
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Birthday poem for a Miss Harriet Walter, praising her virtues, recalling the
previous year's event and anticipating the next
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.
Title: A pastoral
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral dialogue between two shepherds, Palemon and Alexis, their
contrasting attitudes to the beauty of the landscape determined by the
respective presence and absence of their beloved Phillida and Daphne. With a
marginal alternative reading, annotated
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: Jackson, John
Recipient: Jackson, Anne (nee Molineux)
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Apr 1813
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope : Molineux-Jackson-Ransome
Note: Recipient is C.R's maternal grandmother. Written in an early form of shorthand.
Sender: Jackson, John
Recipient: Jackson, Anne (nee Molineux)
Letters: 4
Date(s): 16 Jul 1840 - 12 Jul 1841
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope: Molineux-Jackson-Ransome
Note: Recipient is C.R's maternal grandmother.
Sender: Jackson, T.M.
Recipient: Jackson, Anne (nee Molineux)
Letters: 1
Date(s): 3 Aug 1893
Location: BC Ransome Box 27 [Cyril Ransome: Box 2]; inserted loose at front of Notebook 1
Note: Recipient is C.R's maternal grandmother.
Title: A ballad
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Saturday] October 17, [17]67
Date(s): 1767 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Pastoral love poem, praising the beauty of his beloved's mind as more
important than physical beauty
Sender: Jackson, Jane
Recipient: Ransome, Cyril
Letters: 1
Date(s): 4 Jan 1865
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope: Molineux-Jackson-Ransome
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Letter signed "Aunt Jane"; sender is sister of Cyril's mother, Hannah Jackson.
Sender: Jackson, M.
Recipient: Ransome, Cyril
Letters: 1
Date(s): 19 Mar 1885
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C10; Cyril Ransome Envelope
Note: On the notepaper of the Great Northern Railway Company. Sender is relative of Cyril Ransome.
Sender: Jackson, M.
Recipient: Ransome, Cyril
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Jul 1892
Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9: in envelope Imperial Federation
Note: Sender is relative of Cyril Ransome.