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Total number of records: 8

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection4
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive3
English Literature1

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letter writing8
family3
poetry3
health2
bereavement1
music1
parent child relationship1
postcards1

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Barbados, Caribbean1
Beckenham, United Kingdom1
Genoa, Italy1
London, United Kingdom1
Richmond, United Kingdom1

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Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Dalby, John Watson1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Novello, Vincent1

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From 18005
From 19003

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Up to 18995
Up to 19993

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Betty [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez

1 Mar 1937

Handwritten postcard from Betty [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez, sending love to his mother and telling him not to work too hard. She thanks him for his wire and notes that they are in Barbardos for two w...

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Augustus Hareland to Maurice de Sausmarez

1936-1942

Four handwritten letters from Augustus Hareland to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for a press cutting about his work, advising him not to fall in love, congratulating him on his drawings ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

2 Aug 1874

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, describing the return of the hot weather and that she had received Sabilla's letter of 29 July. Mary recounts having fi...

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John Stume [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1960

Printed and handwritten Christmas card from John Stume [?] and Ann [?] to Maurice de Sausmarez. The card is branded with the logo of the publisher Hutchinson at 178-202 Great Portland Street and inclu...

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Gilchrist, Anne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

23 Nov 1883

Handwritten letter from Anne Gilchrist to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing her pleasure at Cowden Clarke's approval of her biography of Mary Lamb. She describes her research into both Charles and Mary L...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent

1816-1847

Forty eight handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, containing references to Hunt's health and living arrangements, music, travel by sea to Italy via an extended stay in Plymo...

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Dalby, John Watson to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1870-1872

Two handwritten letters from the poet and editor John Watson Dalby to Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 27 August 1870 and 19 February 1872. The former describes the ill health of Ralph (likely the husband...

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Album and copy letter book of Miss A. Young, Dundee

1830

The album and letter book of ‘Miss Young’, kept during her time placed with a local family under the auspices of a ‘worthy benefactress’ in Dundee in 1830, for her private education. The copie...

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