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Total number of records: 117

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Collection groupCount
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive75
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection42
Brotherton Collection4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing117
publishing117
art books30
periodicals17
family11
illustrations11
poetry10
art education8
royalties7
contract law6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom68
Genoa, Italy12
Croagnes, France8
Woodbridge, United Kingdom5
Nice, France3
Leeds, United Kingdom2
Ancona, Italy1
Cambridge, United Kingdom1
Edinburgh, United Kingdom1
Florence, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria8
Hunt, James Henry Leigh7
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden4
Unwin, Thomas Fisher4
Littleton, Augustus3
A.C. Armstrong and Son2
Gigliucci, Giovanni2
Gigliucci, Valeria2
Holsworth, G.2
Bickers and Son (Publishers)1

Count of Earliest date

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From 180038
From 190078
From 20001

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189936
Up to 199977
Up to latest4

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Brown, Charles Armitage to Hunt, James Henry Leigh

20 Aug 1824

Handwritten letter from Charles Armitage Brown to Leigh Hunt providing advice on the disagreement between Leigh Hunt and his brother John Hunt on his work for the radical journal the Examiner. John Hu...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

23 Jan 1879

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, thanking him for his last letter and for his praise for 'Recollections of Writers' by Mary and her late husband Charles Cowden Clarke...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

3 Nov 1866

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, accepting an article for his journal All the Year Round. Dickens notes that the letter is written in haste and gives his reasons. He goes...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

17 Jun 1866

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing his pleasure in retaining an article published during the Christmas period and planning contributions for the year, likely ref...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

25 Jan 1851

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing his reluctance to decline a paper to publish, likely in his journal All the Year Round, and explains his reasoning. He asks he...

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Maurice de Sausmarez to Ann Howgate

5 Jun 1959

Copy of a typewritten letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to Ann Howgate of Hutchinson Educational Publications, apologising for the synopsis being ready.

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A.C. Armstrong and Son to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1888-1891

Six handwritten letters and two printed enclosures from the New York publishers and booksellers A.C. Armstrong and Son to Mary Cowden Clarke, mentioning publishing plans for 'The Girlhood of Shakespea...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to A.C. Armstrong and Son

1888-1892

Handwritten draft copies of fifteen letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to the publishers A.C. Armstrong and Son, mentioning the publication of a new edition of her book 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Her...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gowing, Richard

3 Mar 1876-11 May 1876

Two handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Richard Gowing, noting her husband Charles Cowden Clarke's ill health and that they had sent a section of manuscript for their 'Recollections of Writ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Peacock, H.P.

1845-1848

Five handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to the Manchester magazine editor H.B Peacock, discussing how much she enjoys receiving his letters, his expression of sadness and struggles with heada...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Wilson, Effingham William

c. 1834

Handwritten letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to the publisher Effingham William Wilson, mentioning a notice in the Spectator and requesting any further press on his book 'Adam, the Gardener', three f...

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Irene A. Briers to Maurice de Sausmarez

1965-1966

Two typewritten letters from Irene A. Briers, Associated Editor of The Artist Publishing Co. Ltd., to Maurice de Sausmarez, inviting him to contribute an article for The Artist magazine and following ...

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