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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: [unknown]
Author: Pulter, Lady Hester
Attribution: Hadassas
Date(s): 165- or 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 32
Contents: On the importance of a knowledge of mortality for living devoutly; religious
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 king of hearts
Author: Mainwaring, Arthur
Date(s): 1690
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Satirical mock-heroic attack on Henry Booth, Baron Delamere and Earl of
Warrington, for his ostentatious support for William III
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: 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.