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Total number of records: 45

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection45
Brotherton Collection15

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health35
letter writing33
family19
mental health12
travel10
death8
poetry8
investment7
finance6
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Genoa, Italy18
London, United Kingdom17
Rome, Italy6
Florence, Italy2
Fermo, Italy1
Kent, United Kingdom1
Liverpool, United Kingdom1
Nice, France1
Pisa, Italy1
Richmond, United Kingdom1

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria4
Hunt, James Henry Leigh4
Collins, Catherine (Nee Hehl)2
Cowden Clarke, Charles2
Lamb, Charles2
Novello, Emma Aloysia2
Novello, Joseph Alfred2
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)2
Novello, Vincent2
Clarke, Charles Cowden1

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BC MS NCC/10/3/1 Copy of Notice of Admission 1
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Copy of Notice of Admission

28 Jul 1882

Copy of Notice of Admission to Otto House Lunatic Asylum. Emma Aloysia Novello was said to have suffered from ‘melancholic mania’ thought to have been caused by prolonged caring responsibilities f...

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Medical

1882-1902

Copy of the Notice of Admission to Otto House Lunatic Asylum for Emma Aloysia Novello in 1882 and the undertaker's account from her death in 1902.

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Henry G. Trend medical accounts for payment

1881-1882

Accounts for payment for the attendance of the medical doctor Henry G. Trend, 1 dated Christmas 1881, 2 dated midsummer 1882. Addressed to Miss Novello, Mrs [Catherine] Collins and Mr Duffy.

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

29 Dec 1875

Handwritten draft letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, expressing their thanks for his kind letter and apologising for the delay in their reply, which was due to their both bei...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

11 Apr 1876

Handwritten draft letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, expressing their thanks for Ollier's letter and communicating their improved health after a prolonged period of illness. ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

19 Apr 1884

Handwritten draft letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Anne Gilchrist, thanking her for her letters and praising her character and work on the poet Mary Lamb. She also thanks her for her praise of 'Keat'...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

13 Feb 1885

Handwritten draft letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Anne Gilchrist, in which she describes a meeting with a mutual friend and her desire to see Gilchrist's home. She intends to enclose several autogra...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

14 Jun 1873

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, thanking him for his previous letter and expressing her sadness that his friend is ill. She writes that the situation reminded her of...

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

8 Jan 1882

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, noting that she had given a letter to Cowden Clarke to some old friends who are staying in Genoa, Italy, to recover their heal...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

12 Mar 1884

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, apologising that she would have written sooner but had been unwell since the first day of their travels. She writes that her husban...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

20 Mar 1884

Handwritten postcard from Dinah Maria Craik to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, noting that she had not been able to travel until now and remains weak. She records her travels plans to Genoa and Rome and reque...

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