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Bathurst, Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst (Nee Borthwick)525
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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: Anderson, Charles

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 15 Nov 1874

Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Childhood of the World" [no.45]

Sender: Cardi, C. de

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 May 1901

Location: BC Clodd

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: 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: 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: Bower, Marian

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 13 Jul 1911

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence