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Total number of records: 623

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives620
Objects2
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection623
Brotherton Collection161

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing544
family124
gift giving54
poetry47
music46
publishing44
death31
health31
travel31
music publishing29

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom187
Genoa, Italy142
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Nice, France19
Rome, Italy16
Florence, Italy9
Manchester, United Kingdom9
Paris, France8
Cannes, France5
Fermo, Italy5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria68
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Novello, Vincent27
Novello, Clara Anastasia20
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla19
Haines, Frederick18
Hunt, James Henry Leigh16
Novello, Joseph Alfred16
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden14

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17009
From 1800585
From 190028
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17992
Up to 1899579
Up to 199942

Archive Sub-series

Letters

1835-1890

Letters to (Joseph) Alfred Novello related to the operation of the business Novello & Co, his investment in the Cavour Canal and arrangements for his aunt Adelaide Novello's residence in Italy and not...

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Letters and notes

1830-1873

Letters and notes by Charles Cowden Clarke on poetry, illness, a print subscription, mathematics and a parlour game.

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Draft letter to the spinners and labourers

c. 1854

Draft of a letter addressed 'to the working spinners & labourers generally', which appears to be an early draft of Mary Sabilla Novello's letter to the working classes of Great Britain, with its accom...

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Leigh Hunt and his Letters

c. 1870

Undated handwritten section of the chapter ‘Leigh Hunt and his Letters’ printed in ‘Recollections of Writers’ (1878) by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, comprising pp. 231-272 of the printed te...

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Anonymous letter to Vincent Novello?

c. 1829

One undated and unsigned letter in French, likely to have been sent to Vincent Novello. The letter, from an unknown sender, expresses the hope that Clara Novello and her family will spend the night wi...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Letters

1770-1966

Correspondence between members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and their personal and professional networks. Together they illuminate both the everyday lives of the Novello Cowden Clarke family an...

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Memorandum on a letter from Leigh Hunt

29 May 1892

Memoradum by Mary Cowden Clarke dated 29 May 1892 on taking out a letter from Leigh Hunt, which was quoted in their publication 'Recollections of Writers', to place it in Charles Cowden Clarke's prese...

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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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Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters

3 Dec 1869-15 Mar 1888

Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters of 1856 and 1858, initally aloud to her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and then alone after his death.

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Draft letter to the working classes of Great Britain

Jul 1854

Draft of Mary Sabilla Novello's letter to the working classes of Great Britain dated July 1854.

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Letter of instruction to (Joseph) Alfred Novello's Executors

22 Oct 1893

Letter of instruction written by (Joseph) Alfred Novello to his executors, instructing them to use property left in his Will to pay for the care of his sister Emma Aloysia Novello, 'as inmate of Otto ...

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