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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

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Sender: Abercromby, John, 5th Baron

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 14 Apr (n.y.)

Location: BC Clodd

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

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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."

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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.

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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

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Sender: Cardi, C. de

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 24 May 1901

Location: BC Clodd

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: Hunt, Nat

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 3

Date(s): [Postmarked 4, 11 and 25 Jul 1926]

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Postmarked from Skipton and Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

Sender: Hunter, H.

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 27 Dec 1945

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2