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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

Sender: Inland Revenue

Recipient: O'Neill, John Joseph

Letters: 1

Date(s): 16 Feb 1924

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C3; together with a copy of O'Neill's reply and his letter to A.R.

Note: Sender is director of "Manchester Guardian". Concerning A.R.'s country of residence.

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Inland Revenue

Letters: 3

Date(s): 17 Oct 1927 - 16 Jun 1962

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Typed.

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: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: J.B. Lippincott Company

Letters: 1

Date(s): 11 Sep 1962

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Carbon copy.

Sender: Jack, Edwin

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 5 Jan 1931

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Scott, Frances E.

Recipient: Jackson, Mrs.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Jul [1901]

Location: BC Ransome Box 33 [Ransome family miscellanea]; in Susan Ransome's Album

Note: Copy. Refers to Mrs Jackson's nieces (Jessie and Edith Ransome).

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.

Sender: Jackson, Holbrook

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Dec 1910

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Bowerley, Amelia M.

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Jan 1913

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Sender: Jackson, John Hampden

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 21 Aug 1933

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: MS notes in A.R.'s hand at bottom.

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Jackson, John Hampden

Letters: 1

Date(s): 22 Aug [1933]

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Typed. Reply to Jackson's letter of 21 August 1933. Wrongly addressed to G. Hampden Jackson.

Sender: Jackson, J. K.

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 25 Apr 1949

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Typed. For Milnthorpe Angling Association.

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.

Sender: Jameson, Margaret Storm

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 5 Dec 1949

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Typed. See also M.S. Jameson.

Sender: Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Mar 1896

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Sender: Jaques, Faith

Recipient: Ransome, Evgenia (nee Shelepin)

Letters: 1

Date(s): 7 Jan 1971

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C11

Note: Enclosing a "Sunday Times" cutting of a letter by Anne P. Reece from Montreal about A.R.'s use of "nautical jargon".

Sender: Jenkins, Tristram Douglas Robert

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Sep 1961

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Jenkins, Tristram Douglas Robert

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Sep 1961

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Carbon copy.

Sender: Jennings, Connie

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 26 Jun 1952

Location: BC Ransome; inserted loose in Arthur Ransome's 1952 diary, 16-26 June

Note: Sending picture of sailing ship promised to A.R.

Sender: Jerram, Sir Cecil Bertrand

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 31 Mar 1952

Location: BC Ransome Box 30 [Miscellaneous MSS/TSS Non-AR: 3]

Note: Enclosing his father's MS account of a canoe trip along the rivers of France with a friend (E.F. Knight), which appeared in "The Felstedian" in 1874.

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

Sender: Bracewell, W. Hartley

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 1

Date(s): 3 May 1904

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Jeynes, Alban

Letters: 1

Date(s): 23 Sep 1962

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Carbon copy.

Sender: Johnson, John

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 15 Jan 1960

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 8 Jun 1956

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Signed by E.M. Barrett, Trade Department.

Sender: Reid, Betty (Mrs)

Recipient: Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 7 Jun 1967

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C11; with Mrs Reid's letter to E.R., 29 August 1971

Note: Photocopy. On death of A.R.

Sender: Kays Carpets (Blackpool) Ltd.

Recipient: Ransome, Evgenia (nee Shelepin)

Letters: 2

Date(s): 23 Jun 1973

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C11; in Abbot Hall envelope

Note: Letter of 23 June is estimate for carpet for A.R. area at Abbot Hall.

Sender: Kelsall, J. Desmond

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 25 Apr 1951

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C1; in envelope marked: Elver Fly

Sender: Kelsall, J. Desmond

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 21 Jun 1955

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Note: Sending some "vulturine guinea-fowl" feathers, in accompanying envelope.

Sender: Kennerley, Morley

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 4

Date(s): 1 Jan 1957 - 15 Aug 1961

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Kerr

Letters: 1

Date(s): 4 Jul 1919

Location: BC Ransome Box 24 [Russian MSS/TSS: M-Z]; section P.

Note: With carbon ts translation of the reply to the "Prinknipo Proposal"

Sender: Kerr, Archibald John Kerr Clark

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 3

Date(s): 30 Jun 1925 - 16 May 1927

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Kettley, Valerie

Recipient: Ransome, Evgenia

Letters: 1

Date(s): 12 Feb 1968

Location: BC Ransome: with photograph T238

Note: With two photographs of A.R. [Photographs: T238].

Sender: Keynes, John Maynard

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 17 May 1922

Location: BC Ransome; inserted loose at front of Arthur Ransome's 1922 diary

Note: Tchicherin to write an article, to be given to A.R.; asks A.R. to telephone Lenin about Lenin's article.

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: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Kingsbury, D.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 11 Oct 1960

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: Carbon copy. Replying to an invitation to The Midland Fly Fishers' Dinner.

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: Snowman, Mary

Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin

Letters: 2

Date(s): 28 Dec [1972]-20 Jan 1973

Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-6-1-1: Personal

Note: Sender is an erstwhile inhabitant of the island of Eigg

Sender: Kopwillem, F.

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 9 Nov 1920

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C2

Sender: Ransome, Arthur

Recipient: Latham, H.S.

Letters: 4

Date(s): 23 Jan 1948 - 6 May 1950

Location: BC Ransome correspondence Box C6

Note: The letter dated 5 Apr 1950 is a typed draft; the other two letters are carbon copies. 6 May 1950 letter discusses royalties on 'We didn't mean to go to sea'. Recipient worked for Macmillan in New York

Sender: Laurent Giles & Partners Ltd.

Recipient: Stebbings, Burnham Ltd.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 15 Mar 1947

Location: BC Ransome Box 5 [Ephmera]; in envelope containing Laurent Giles' plans for the boat "Peter Duck"

Note: Carbon copy "extract for Mr. Ransome".

Sender: Laycock, Dorothy S.

Recipient: Ransome, Arthur

Letters: 1

Date(s): 10 Jun 1939

Location: BC Ransome; loose at p 59 of blue cuttings album "Reviews" (unboxed, on shelf)

Note: Sender is Canadian, commenting on female detective fiction writers after reading a review by A.R.