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Total number of records: 69

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection69
Brotherton Collection44

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel69
letter writing28
diaries20
family13
health10
music10
drawing6
classical music5
poetry5
music publishing4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy15
Vienna, Austria13
London, United Kingdom11
Salzburg, Austria11
Paris, France10
Rome, Italy8
Munich, Germany4
Florence, Italy3
Germany3
Linz, Austria3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Hunt, James Henry Leigh2
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla2
Novello, Clara Anastasia2
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)2
[Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria]1
[Her Children]1
Bell, John1
Bodichon, Barbara Leigh (Nee Smith)1
Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke and (Joseph) Alfred Novello1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17004
From 180056
From 19003
From 20006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189961
Up to 19997

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Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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NOVELLO, Vincent

1808-1964

Five boxes containing jewellery, legal documents, manuscript music, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, photographs and the travel diaries from Vincent Novello's journey across Europe with his wife Mary Sa...

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NOVELLO, Mary Sabilla (née HEHL)

1789-1860

Mary Sabilla Novello's pocket watch, Will, drafts of letters and songs, thoughts on Christianity and the working classes, scrapbooks and commonplace books, family accounts, prose manuscripts, portrait...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

30 Oct 1867

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, noting Dickens' forthcoming visit to America and sending their best wishes for his tr...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1880-1882

Correspondence between the novelist and poet Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock) and Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, concerned with Craik's travels in Italy and associated periods of ill health.

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Davies, Fanny to [Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria]

c. 1870

Concluding page of a handwritten note from Fanny Davies to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing that she was looking forward to seeing her and Valeria (likely Cowden Clarke's niece Valeria Gigliucci) and no...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

1822-1835

Nine handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, dated 2 March 1822 to [21 Nov 1835] with four undated. The letters contain social arrangements, dicuss his poetry and ill hea...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent and Novello, Mary Sabilla

1821-1823

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello, dating from 24 December 1821 to 25 July 1823 and containing references to Hunt's health, comic v...

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Poems by Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin

1739

Three handwritten poems on German themes by Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin. The first is titled ‘Song on leaving Berlin’ and dated November 1739.

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Music

1854-1860

Printed tickets for members of the Novello family for entry into the Crystal Palace, for their participation in the opening ceremony in 1854 and the Handel Festival in 1857. Also includes a printed ad...

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Travel

1829

Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello travelled through Europe in 1829 and both kept diaries from this time. The file contains Vincent Novello's diaries along with associated letters, memo...

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Novello, Clara Anastasia to [her children]

1861

Two handwitten letters, one incomplete, from Clara Anastasia Novello to her children Porzia, Valeria, Mario and Giovanni Gigliucci. The first letter is undated and written on mourning paper, likely as...

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