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Brotherton Collection4

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Gosse, Edmund5
Freemantle, William Thomas2
Hueffer, Francis2
Raven, Charles E. (Charles Earle), 1885-19642
Sala, George Augustus2
Bancroft, George1
Becker, B.H.1
Besant, Sir Walter1
Bickers and Son (Publishers)1
Bird, Tom1

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Sender: Laking, Guy Francis

Recipient: Shorter, Clement King

Letters: 3

Date(s): 23 Mar 1914 - 9 Mar 1917

Location: BC. Shorter correspondence

Note: All typewritten.

Sender: Drouet, Juliette, 1806-1883.

Recipient: Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.

Letters: 475

Date(s): n.d. (in a few instances dated 1851)

Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Hugo

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: A most interesting collection of 475 autograph love letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo consisting of 4,800 pages. Headed in each case with the day and hour of writing, but only in a very few instances putting a date, 1851. Boxed, together with seventeen letters from other feminine admirers signed Adele, Marie, etc., and eight signed Claire, also letters and other Memoranda, printed and MSS, relating to Madame Drouet.

Sender: Raven, Charles E. (Charles Earle), 1885-1964

Recipient: Roubiczek, Paul

Letters: 2

Date(s): 17 Oct 1949; one undated

Location: SC MS 1736, Roubiczek archive, in a copy of F.W. Dillistone's "Charles Raven"

Sender: Raven, Charles E. (Charles Earle), 1885-1964

Recipient: Roubiczek, Hjordis

Letters: 1

Date(s): undated

Location: SC MS 1736, Roubiczek archive, in a copy of F.W. Dillistone's "Charles Raven"

Sender: Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1801-1885

Recipient: Ranson, Mr

Letters: 1

Date(s): 27 Mar 1855

Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Shaftesbury

Note: With a portrait/press-cutting. The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also a transcript of the letter, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.

Sender: Bickers and Son (publishers)

Recipient: Littleton, Mr

Letters: 1

Date(s): 1 Apr 1884

Location: BC Novello Cowden Clarke Collection

Note: With receipt for 1885


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Becker, B.H. to Sala, George Augustus

1879-1885

18 Jul 1879 - 14 Nov [1881]; [Apr/May 1885]

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Bird, Tom to Sala, Mrs [*]

8 Dec 1890

* According to DNB Sala's first wife died in 1885 and he married Bessie Stannard in 1891.8 Dec 1890

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Sender: Butler, Josephine Elizabeth (Mrs George Butler, nee Grey)

Recipient: Ford, Emily

Letters: 11

Date(s): 16 Jun 1882 - 17 Dec [1886]; 4 n.y.

Category: 19c2 Female

Note: Four letters have no year but two of these were probably written in 1885. One item is a postmarked Swiss postcard. One (mourning) border is incomplete.

Sender: Monckton-Milnes, Richard, 1st Baron Houghton of Great Houghton

Recipient: Gosse, Edmund

Letters: 1

Date(s): n.d. [Jun 1885?]

Location: BC Gosse correspondence. Inserted in "Living English Poets", 1883

Note: Autograph message inscribed on a visiting card of the Dowager Viscountess Galway. A comment on Lord Houghton's handwriting appears on the back, dated June 1885, and initialled E.G.

Sender: Hueffer, Francis

Recipient: Freemantle, William Thomas

Letters: 4

Date(s): 15 Sep 1885 - 10 May 1887

Location: BC Ms Mus FRE, with three further letters from his widow, Catherine Hueffer, etc., in box with other Freemantle correspondence

Note: Three letters and one postcard, with draft replies from Freemantle (including one card dated 12 September 1885). On Freemantle's notes on Berlioz, and a letter from Mendelssohn.

Sender: Hueffer, Francis

Recipient: Ella, John

Letters: 1

Date(s): 17 Jul 1885

Location: BC Ms, Mus, FRE. Filed with Ella-Freemantle correspondence

Note: Suggesting that W.T. Freemantle might care to see his Berlioz material. This letter was sent to Freemantle by Ella, and the latter has copied it on the verso of Ellas's covering letter of 18 July 1885.