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Total number of records: 66

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives64
Art items1
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection66
Brotherton Collection44

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing29
family11
travel11
drawing10
diaries6
landscape6
music6
poetry6
gift giving5
painting5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Nice, France33
Paris, France21
London, United Kingdom15
Salzburg, Austria8
Vienna, Austria7
Cannes, France6
Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France3
France3
Genoa, Italy3
Munich, Germany2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, Joseph Alfred3
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Dickens, Charles2
Allanda, Guiseppe1
Cobden, Richard1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dyson, George1
Farrar, Eliza Ware1
Gigliucci, Edith (Nee Mozley)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180060
From 19003
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189962
Up to 19994

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Cobden, Richard to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

21 Mar 1860

Handwritten letter from Richard Cobden to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, thanking Novello for his note and enclosed letter and asking him to thank his sister Mary Cowden Clarke for sending him an extract fr...

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Drawing of a house

Aug 1860

Ink on paper drawing of a house in a landscape, possibly made by Emma Aloysia Novello, with a pencil inscription on the bottom left. Original paper folder is inscribed with details of the setting and ...

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Cobden, Richard to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1860

Undated handwritten letter from Richard Cobden to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, describing his wife's recent cold and that she wanted him to write to Novello to say that she could come on Thursday but woul...

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Cobden, Richard to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

13 Mar 1860

Handwritten letter from Richard Cobden to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, thanking Novello for his hospitality during their stay. He encourages Novello to send a note to complain about the tone of the letter...

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Cobden, Richard to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

10 Feb 1860

Handwritten letter from Richard Cobden to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, describing the location of the house in which he is staying in Cannes, France and apologises for the delay in his reply to Novello ha...

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Farrar, Eliza Ware to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 Nov 1857

Handwritten letter from the author Eliza Ware Farrar to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing a gift and questioning whether she will be interested in the advice an American gave to young girls twenty years a...

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Letter...To the working classes of Great Britain

Jul 1854

Draft of a 'Letter from Mrs Vincent Novello addressed To the working classes of great Britain', beginning 'My dear Countrymen & Countrywomen' and noting her concerns for the welfare of the working cla...

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Copies of baptism certificates for Emma Clara Serle and Lydia Mary Serle

1 May 1857

Copies baptism certificates for Emma Clara Serle and Lydia Mary Serle, both dated 1 May 1857. Emma was born on 6 January 1846 and Lydia was born on 17 December 1847, to Thomas James and Cecilia Serle ...

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Poem to Edith Margaret Mozley

c. 1869

Poem to Edith Margaret Mozley written on yellow paper beginning ‘Hotel Beau Site. Cannes. May the twelfth, Dear Miss Edith…’ Possibly by her future sister-in-law Valeria Gigliucci.

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Poem beginning 'I've a philippine lost to a damsel...'

8 May 1869

Poem beginning 'I've a philippine lost to a damsel...' written on pink paper, possibly by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley. Dated 8 May 1869.

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Sketch after Peter Paul Rubens

c. 1830

Undated pencil, ink and wash sketch by Edward Petre Novello after a detail Peter Paul Rubens' 'The Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseille on 3 November 1600' at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

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Plan of Villa Quaglia?

c. 1849

Hand-drawn plan of a house and garden, likely Villa Quaglia in Nice, noting the locations of the bedrooms of Mary Sabilla Novello and her daughters (Mary) Sabilla Novello and Emma Aloysia Novello. Inc...

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