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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: Life
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 182- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 48
Contents: Religious poem on the progress of human life from birth to death,
protected and directed by an immanent God
Letters: 1
Date(s): 9th August 1936
Note: Manuscript letter about a list featuring Disraeli.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12th March 1952
Note: TS letter thanking Sharrock for a book suggestion (on the topic of Wordsworth) but declining to commission one.
Letter headed Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5th July 1964
Note: Postcard to Eric Capon (at Guildhall school of Music), thanking him for a cheque and an event Read attended.
Letters: 4pp
Date(s): 12 October 1957
Note: Letter expresses Powys's delight atKnight's article-review, under the title 'Cosmic correspondences', of Powys's 'Up and Out' in the Times Literary Supplement of 11 October 1957.
Sender: Cowden Clarke, Charles
Recipient: Wilson, Effingham
Letters: 1 letter
Date(s): c. 1834
Note: Letter from Cowden Clarke to Wilson [his publisher] commenting upon a recent review of his book 'Adam' in the 'Spectator', and requesting copies of any other complimentary reviews, along with three more copies of the book.
Letters: 1 letter
Date(s): c. 1900
Note: Letter to Ellen Gosse commenting on a trip to the Hague and problems with the author's eye. With a pen and ink sketch of the author of the letter with a bandage over their right eye.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barham, Richard Harris
Date(s): 1840 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Reminiscence of receiving either presents or punishment when a child in the nursery, according to either good or naughty behaviour
Title: The contented maidens soliloquy
Author: Hall or Hale, Spinster ?
Attribution: Spinster Hale (Hall?)
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: In praise of the freedom and pleasures of the life of a spinster or unmarried woman. Cf. BCMSV 3594.
Title: The bachelors complaint
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: F.B.
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: Lament for the loneliness of a bachelor or unmarried man, ending with a resolution to marry. Cf. BCMSV 3593.
Title: The love letters
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: F.B.
Date(s): 185- ?
Manuscript: Lt 93
Contents: On love letters kept, some worn with frequent reading, others marked by tears, but all precious for the memories they evoke