Charles Cowden Clarke manuscript material : 149 items, 1812-ca. 1880

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Charles Cowden Clarke manuscript material : 149 items, 1812-ca. 1880

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· Two manuscript stories, within the Three Eastern Tales manuscript volume : ca. 1880 : in the hand of Mary Cowden Clarke. - "Gentleness is Power, or the Story of Carauza and Aborzuf" : (S'ANA 0178) : 53 leaves. - "The Story of the little Princess Narina and her silver-featherd shoes" : (S'ANA 0179) : 50 leaves. - In contemporary Italian vellum binding with gilt lettering. Shelved as *Pforz A-LU 09. The third tale, "Mamillius's Story" (S'ANA 0180) is by Mary Cowden Clarke. · Holograph review, "The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare, by Mrs. Cowden Clarke" : ca. 1844-1845 : (S'ANA 0189) : 7 p. · Six fair-copy holograph poems : no date : (S'ANA 0190) : 6 p., including, "The Four Seasons," "Woman's Smile," "Hymn to God," "Do not think my heart is gay," "Sonnett" [sic.], and "Last of the Fairies." · To James T. Fields, Boston publisher : 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Oct 1860 : (S'ANA 0259) : regarding his "Recollections of John Keats," to be published in The Atlantic Monthly Magazine. · To "Editor of the Liverpool Albion" : 1 autograph letter signed : (S'ANA 0260) : requesting his opinions on a book of his soon to be sent. · To H. B. Peacock, Manchester magazine editor : 139 autograph letters signed : 1841-1850 : (S'ANA 0203-0217) (S'ANA 0552-0553) : containing numerous references to contemporary writers and literature, the theatre, music, politics, his own public lectures on the English poets, etc. · To a Mr. Titterton, apparently a bookseller : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Oct 1873 : (S'ANA 0748a) : ordering books and music. Along with this : 4 slips of various sizes : 3 with book titles, dates, and Clarke's signatures : Dugdale[']s Monasticon, May 8, 1812 ; Smiths Optics, 23d Apl 1816 ; Panciroli (Guido) Notitia ...13 Oct 1829 ; and 1 pass to "admit the Miss Latimer's and friends" to the Athenaeum Institution, 20 Oct 1849. · To a John Warren, Esq. : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Feb 1856 : (S'ANA 0564) : complying with a request for a syllabus of his lecture "On Shakespeare's Jesters (or 'Clowns')" [no longer enclosed]. Blind embossed head of Shakespeare at top of page. · To Samuel Williams, engraver : 2 autograph letters signed : 1833-1834 : (S'ANA 0562-0563) : regarding designs for illustrations to his books.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898

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Mary Cowden Clarke was a British author and actress and one of the first significant female Shakespearean editors. Her family were intimates of Keats, Dickens, Fielding, and the Lambs. Working with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke, and on her own, she compiled an impressive body of work including the major Shakespearean concordance of her day. From the description of Mary Cowden Clarke letters and poem, 1872-1882. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848...

Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877

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Scholar and author. From the description of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke correspondence, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453461 Charles Cowden Clarke, English writer and public lecturer. In his twenties he worked as a teacher at his father's school in Enfield, Middlesex. During this time Clarke befriended a young John Keats, and introduced him to the works of the great poets. He later moved to London, where he made many friends among the literary set, ...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Williams, Samuel, 1788-1853

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Peacock, H. B., 1801-1876.

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Titterton, Mr.

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