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Total number of records: 29

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Archives23
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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection14
Brotherton Collection5
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive5
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture4
Cookery Collection1

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travel29
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health17
family7
community life4
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occupations4
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animals3
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Genoa, Italy9
Rome, Italy5
London, United Kingdom4
Florence, Italy2
Angleterre1
Anticoli, Italy1
Bedford, United Kingdom1
England1
Fermo, Italy1
Hastings, United Kingdom1

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Hunt, James Henry Leigh2
Jervis, John2
Jervis, John (1802-1856)2
Kitchiner, William (1775?-1827)2
[Her Children]1
Addison, Sir William (1905-1992)1
Arnold, Jim1
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Craik, Mrs Dinah Maria (Nee Mullock)1

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Travel in health : a guide to healthy travelling overseas

Fry, Graham; Kenny, Vincent

c2000

Previous ed.: Ireland: International Safari Health, 1994.

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

13 Feb 1885

Handwritten draft letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Anne Gilchrist, in which she describes a meeting with a mutual friend and her desire to see Gilchrist's home. She intends to enclose several autogra...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1880-1882

Correspondence between the novelist and poet Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock) and Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, concerned with Craik's travels in Italy and associated periods of ill health.

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

1822-1835

Nine handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, dated 2 March 1822 to [21 Nov 1835] with four undated. The letters contain social arrangements, dicuss his poetry and ill hea...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent and Novello, Mary Sabilla

1821-1823

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello, dating from 24 December 1821 to 25 July 1823 and containing references to Hunt's health, comic v...

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Robin George Collingwood to Maurice de Sausmarez

1 Jul 1932

Handwritten letter from the philosopher, historian and archaeologist Robin George Collingwood to Maurice de Sausmarez, providing advice about travelling to Spain, including how to manage the heat, hea...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Gigliucci, Porzia and Gigliucci, Valeria

14 Apr 1880

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to Porzia and Valeria Gigliucci ('the lilies'), explaining her absence as a result of recent ill health and ongoing weakness. She describes a brief visit to t...

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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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