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Total number of records: 53

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection53
Brotherton Collection45

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
music16
family12
letter writing12
poetry9
prose9
writing9
editing8
vocal music7
gift giving6
publishing6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy12
London, United Kingdom9
Germany3
Berlin (Germany)1
Birmingham, United Kingdom1
Cambirdge, United Kingdom1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Nice, France1
Rome, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Gigliucci, Valeria2
Littleton, Augustus2
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Collier, John Payne1
Compton, H1
Fuller Maitland, John Alexander1
Gigliucci, Porzia1
Gowing, Richard1
Haines, Frederick1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17005
From 180044
From 19004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189936
Up to 199917

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Manuscript Music

c. 1800-1900

Manuscript music associated with the Novello Cowden Clarke family, including drafts by Vincent Novello and performance copies belonging to the vocalist Clara Anastasia Novello, including transcribed c...

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Manuscript volume of music

c. 1835

Manuscript volume of music having belonged to Clara Anastasia Novello. Her name is written on the front of the spine and it is inscribed with her name on the inside of the cover, with the address 69 D...

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Draft manuscript of 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences'

c. 1908

Draft manuscript of 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' with additional notes in later hands. Clara Novello's daughter Valeria Gigliucci was responsible for compiling and editing her mother's autobiograph...

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Manuscript of fables by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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Manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

1858-1868

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. Titled 'Poems C.C.C.' in red on the front cover, with decorative gold borders and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as ...

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Manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

27 Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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Margaret; or The Daughter's Trial

c. 1840

The manuscript for a novel by Mary Sabilla Novello titled 'Margaret; or The Daughter's Trial'.

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Editing

c. 1899

One loose manuscript and one bound manuscript in three volumes of Simon's Hehl's memoir, variously titled 'Memoirs of a German Student' and 'My Grandfather's Life', edited by his maternal granddaughte...

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Compton, H. to Haines, Frederick

9 Feb 1872

Handwritten letter from H. Compton to Frederick Haines, noting the safe arrival of a manuscript.

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Lecture ‘On the Genius of Shakespeare’ by Charles Cowden Clarke

c. 1840

Lecture ‘On the Genius of Shakespeare’ by Charles Cowden Clarke as a bound manuscript with a faded purple cover.

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Music

1815-1849

Eight volumes of sacred, popular and classical manuscript music composed, selected or arranged by Vincent Novello.

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The Travelled Lizard

c. 1850

Manuscript copy of 'The Travelled Lizard. Written by a Lady: edited by Sabilla Novello. Written in a notebook with blue covers.

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