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Total number of records: 11

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection11
Brotherton Collection2

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letter writing10
family3
investment2
legal procedure2
publishing2
biography1
death1
european literature1
health1
income tax1

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Genoa, Italy5
Cannes, France2
London, United Kingdom2
Edinburgh, United Kingdom1
Paris, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
A.C. Armstrong and Son1
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Gigliucci, Porzia, Contessa1
Gigliucci, Valeria1
Novello, Vincent1
Sainton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen1
Smith, Elder and Co.1
Vice-President and Directors of Edinburgh Philosophical Institute1

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Up to 19992

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Smith, Elder and Co. to Gigliucci, Valeria

1909

Four handwritten letters from the publishers Smith, Elder and Co. to Valeria Gigliucci, regarding the publication of her biography of her mother, 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences', which they decline.

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Legal

1888-1903

Copies of (Mary) Sabillla Novello's Will, letters of instruction to her Exectutor and beneficiaries and a draft memo in her hand regarding the legal and financial position of her sister Emma Aloysia N...

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Sainton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen to Novello, Vincent

13 Feb 1847

Handwritten letter from the singer and composer Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby to Vincent Novello, regarding his daugher Mary Cowden Clarke's proposal to erect a monument to Shakespeare, to be paid for...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gigliucci, Porzia

18 Jan 1884

Handwritten letter from Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke to her niece Porzia Gigliucci, describing how she was thinking of her after she had left, through the arrangement of flowers and foliage they had ar...

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Bauer, Juliette to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

c. 1846

Undated handwritten letter from Juliette Bauer to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, recording that Juliette had returned extracts sent to her by Mary and noted the writer's enthusiasm for Shakespeare. She ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to A.C. Armstrong and Son

1888-1892

Handwritten draft copies of fifteen letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to the publishers A.C. Armstrong and Son, mentioning the publication of a new edition of her book 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Her...

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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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Hudson, Sir James to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

31 Jan 1867

Copy of a letter from Sir James Hudson, director of Banca Anglo-Italiana, to (Joseph) Alfred Novello about a dispute regarding his investment in the Cavour Canal, dated 31 January 1867. The canal was ...

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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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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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Vice-President and Directors of Edinburgh Philosophical Institute to Cowden Clarke, Charles

28 Feb 1862

Handwritten letter from the Vice-President and Directors of Edinburgh Philosophical Institute to Charles Cowden Clarke, requesting that Cowden Clarke lecture again at the Edinburgh Philosophical Insti...

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