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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.

Sender: Watson, Anne

Recipient: Jackson, Mary

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Feb 1835

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope: Molineux-Jackson-Ransome

Category: 19c2 Female

Sender: Jackson, Thomas M.

Recipient: Ransome, Cyril

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 Jun 1882

Location: BC Ransome Box 27 [Cyril Ransome: Box 2]; inserted loose at front of Notebook 1

Note: Sender is uncle of Cyril Ransome.

Title: Epilogue to the Widow'd Wife, spoken by Mrs Clive

Author: Kenrick, William ?

Attribution: The Gazetteer of [Friday] Dec. 11, 1767

Date(s): 1767 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Epilogue to William Kenrick's play "The Widow'd Wife", urging the audience to

continue their patronage, and pretending, like a doctor, to take the pulse of

their reactions to the performance. Spoken by the actress Kitty Clive.

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Sender: Jex-Blake, Thomas William

Recipient: Ransome, Cyril

Letters: 1

Date(s): 15 Nov 1879

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope lettered: Prince Alamayu

Title: A small fragment of my Lord Russel's elogy, whose much lamented execution was

performed in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 21st day of July 1683

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Copied from the first (originally) plain leaf of F. Vansleb's Travels printed

Date(s): 1683 ?

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Fragment of an elegy lamenting the execution and death of William Lord

Russell in 1683. One line corrected and signed G.S.

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Sender: King, Charles Cooper, Captain

Recipient: Ransome, Cyril

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 Jan 1880

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope marked: Prince Alamayu

Note: Alamayu entered Sandhurst after school at Rugby.

Sender: Kitchin, George William, Dean of Winchester, later Dean of Durham

Recipient: Ransome, Cyril

Letters: 4

Date(s): 24 May 1886 - 6 Sep 1895

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C10; Cyril Ransome Envelope

Sender: Lingen, Sir Ralph Robert Wheeler

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 6

Date(s): 24 Dec 1879 - 21 Feb 1880

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C9; in envelope lettered: Prince Alamayu

Title: The beau parson. Addressed to the Revd. Mr John Horne (Minister or Curate of

Brentford)

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Gazetteer, [Friday] Dec. 30, 1768

Date(s): 1768 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 12

Contents: Satire on a clergyman, John Horne, concerned with his external appearance

(hair and clothes) instead of religion. With a marginal note on the layout of

the verse.

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