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Total number of records: 23

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive15
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection8
Brotherton Collection4

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letter writing23
drawing20
gift giving5
drawings3
poetry3
art education2
exhibitions2
health2
interest groups2
music2

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London, United Kingdom8
Genoa, Italy2
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Cliveden, United Kingdom1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Gedling, United Kingdom1
Horsham, United Kingdom1
Manchester, United Kindom1
Manchester, United Kingdom1

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Christie, Alexander1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Frost, Wlliam Edward1
Humphrys, W.1

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From 17001
From 18007
From 190015

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Up to 199917

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David Garbett to Maurice de Sausmarez

15 Oct 1969

Two pen and ink drawings of landscapes with buildings drawing on postcards by David Garbett, which he sent to Maurice de Sausmarez during his final illness.

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Ollier, Edmund

27 Sep 1868

Draft handwritten letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, noting Ollier's support for a memorial to their mutual friend, the poet Leigh Hunt. Along with his wife Mary Cowden Clarke, they o...

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Nicolete Gray to Maurice de Sausmarez

19 Mar 1969

Handwritten letter from the scholar of art and lettering Nicolete Gray to Maurice de Sausmarez, discussing her memoir of Helen Sutherland and role as an early patron of Ben Nicholson and offering to h...

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Ralph S.J. [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1950

Undated handwritten letter from Ralph S.J. to Maurice de Sausmarez, acknowledging de Sausmarez's letter but writing that he is not ready to answer it, but is glad that someone else is having a difficu...

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Viscount Monck to Maurice de Sausmarez

25 Jul 1955

Typewritten letter from Viscount Monck, one of the Directors of T.H. Sauders & Co. Ltd., to Maurice de Sausmarez, enclosing samples of their drawing paper, a list of paper specifications and an unused...

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John Powell to Maurice de Sausmarez

20 Jun 1965

Handwritten letter from the artist John Powell to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that Powell had sent the photographs of Giacometti's drawings and that there was a second set of drawings available if de...

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Frost, Wlliam Edward to Humphrys, William

13 Oct 1863

Handwritten letter from the painter William Edward Frost to the engraver William Humphrys, in which Frost presents a pencil sketch of Edward Petre Novello to Humphrys, drawn by the artist Thomas Sewel...

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Letter from Percy Horton to Maurice de Sausmarez

13 Mar 1939

Handwritten letter from Percy Horton to Maurice de Sausmarez, in which Horton asks de Sausmarez to bring some drawings in a folder for a visitor to see. Percy Horton was an Assistant in the School of ...

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Various complimentary verses written to Clara Anastasia Novello

c. 1850

Seventeen manuscript items including complimentary verses written to Clara Anastasia Novello, press cuttings and a drawing by Mahbran. In various languages.

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John [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1960

Typewritten letter from John [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that he has been working hard on translation jobs while in Paris and asking to rent de Sausmarez's house in the Vaucluse for three mont...

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George Metcalf to Maurice de Sausmarez

1963-1964

Two handwritten letters from the doctor George Metcalf to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for looking at his sketches and providing an update on the health of his mother Jessie. The second...

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Richard Ellis Naish to Maurice de Sausmarez

1963

Handwritten letter from Richard Ellis Naish to Maurice de Sausmarez, asking if de Sausmarez might apply to be Ruskin Master of Drawing and stressing the importance of the right person succeeding Percy...

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