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Letters Database47
Brotherton Collection1

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria47
Ollier, Edmund2
[Wood, Thomas?]2
Dickens, Charles2
Jerrold, Douglas William2
Gilchrist, Anne2
Holsworth, G.2
Novello, Mary Sabilla1
Peacock, Henry Barry1
Peacock, Liebe1

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: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Coleridge, Sir John Duke, Baron Coleridge

Letters: 3

Date(s): 10 Apr 1879 - 13 May 1879

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Copies. Recipient is Lord Chief-justice of England.

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Dennel, Charles F.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 17 Jan 1852

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Copy.

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Dickens, Charles

Letters: 23

Date(s): [Apr 1848] - 18 Jul 1895

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Note: Rough drafts.


Additional item added September 2017: a photocopy of a letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens [18 July 1895] containing Clarke's thoughts on Chapter XIII 'The Fellow of No Delicacy' of Dicken's 'Tale of Two Cities'.

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Gigliucci, Porzia, Countessa

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Jan 1884

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Gigliucci, Valeria, Countessa

Letters: 1

Date(s): 18 Jun 1892

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: In Tennyson's "Robin Hood and Maid Marian".

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Gilchrist, Anne

Letters: 4

Date(s): 12 Nov 1882 - 13 Feb 1885

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Rough drafts. In Gilchrist envelope.

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Holsworth, G.

Letters: 1

Date(s): 16 May 1868

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Rough draft.

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Jerrold, Douglas William

Letters: 4

Date(s): 11 Oct 1849 - 23 Feb 1850

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c1 Female

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Novello, Clara Anastasia (aft. Countessa Gigliucci)

Letters: 5

Date(s): 22 May 1877 - 2 Mar 1893

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Novello, Mary Sabilla

Letters: 30

Date(s): 26 Aug 1873 - 10 Aug 1875

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Sender: Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

Recipient: Ollier, Edmund

Letters: 13

Date(s): 13 Jan 1853 - 28 Mar 1887

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Rough drafts.