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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

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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.