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Total number of records: 48

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection44
Brotherton Collection20
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing28
family22
poetry12
death9
publishing9
gift giving8
drawing6
photography6
legal procedure5
travel5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom48
Genoa, Italy36
Rome, Italy6
Florence, Italy4
Fermo, Italy2
Nice, France2
Venice, Italy2
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Berlin (Germany)1
Bonnelles, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haines, Frederick5
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria4
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla2
Unwin, Thomas Fisher2
Canning, Stratford, 1st Viscount Stratford De Radcliffe1
Cavendish, William, 6th Duke of Devonshire1
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180040
From 19007

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189935
Up to 199913

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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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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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John Broadwood and Sons to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1870

Two handwritten letters from the piano manufacturer John Broadwood and Sons to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred, noting that they were about to send a pianoforte and a parcel of soap from London to Genoa and ...

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Gigliucci, Porzia to Haines, Frederick

16 Jan 1892

Handwritten letter from Porzia Gigliucci to the bank manager Frederick Haines, written on behalf of her aunt. Gigliucci describes her concern for the health of both aunts, Mary Cowden Clarke and (Mary...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

12 Nov 1882

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Ann[e] Gilchrist, in which she grants permission to quote from her published recollections of the poet Mary Lamb for her forthcoming biography, but that s...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Holsworth, G.

16 May 1868

Handwritten draft of a letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to G. Holdworth of the journal All the Year Round, thanking him for the cheque for eight guineas as payment for her verse story 'The Yule Log' and...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

15 Aug 1881

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, recording her imminent return to Italy from London and her gratitude to Ollier for his letter about Percy and Mary Shelley.

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

28 Jan 1878

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, in which she begins by explaining that she uses his full name because to her, 'Mr. Ollier' refers to his father, the publisher Charle...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Wills, William Henry

1867-1868

Two handwritten draft letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to William Henry Wills, the first dated 17 March 1867 thanks Wills for the cheque for five guineas and communicates that any further payments can ...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

3 Nov 1866

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, accepting an article for his journal All the Year Round. Dickens notes that the letter is written in haste and gives his reasons. He goes...

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BC MS NCC/11/2/1 Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)
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Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard. The reverse is inscribed with the following: 'Portrait of Mother & Father an enlarg...

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Scrapbooks

1846-1897

The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...

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