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Total number of records: 22

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family22
letter writing22
sculpture2
disease control1
reading1
weather1

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Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Genoa, Italy22
Birmingham, United Kingdom2

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Novello, Mary Sabilla1

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From 180021
From 19001

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Up to 189921
Up to 19991

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

1873-1875

Letters between Mary Cowden Clarke and her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, dating from 26 August 1873 to 10 August 1875, while Mary was living at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, with her husband Charles...

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Explanatory note by Nerina Medici Gigliucci

1953

Explanatory handwritten note by Nerina Medici Gigliucci, titled 'Notes on places & people mentioned in these letters of 1873-74-75 of Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke to her sister [Mary] Sabilla Novello'....

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

26 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, thanking her for her letter and for attached letters and photographs of other family members. She notes that her husban...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

27 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, relating a meeting between their brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello and Sartorio in Genoa and the hot weather they are exp...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

29 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, which explains that she was not able to write to her yesterday as a result of the weather, which caused her husband Cha...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

30 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, which describes an improvement to her husband Charles' health and an incident of noises caused by a fire nearby, which ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

31 Aug 1873

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, which describes her joy at hearing her sister is happy and the family are well. She apologises for a brief letter as he...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

17 Jul 1874

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, reflecting on observing her packing to leave Villa Novello. She describes hearing thunder and that she was glad that Sa...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

19 Jul 1874

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, thanking Sabilla for the letters she has written to them on her travels and describing the letters she has written to t...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

21 Jul 1874

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, expressing how difficult it is to write with the heat and anxiety about Mario Gigliucci, but that she, her husband Char...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

22 Jul 1874

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, beginning with a quote from a letter from her niece Porzia Gigliucci on the improvement of the fever suffered by her br...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

31 Jul 1874

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, mentioning a letter received by her husband Charles from Mary Beali about a family holiday to Paignton and Dartmoor in ...

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