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Total number of records: 37

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives35
Objects2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection37
Brotherton Collection25

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
death37
family15
legal procedure13
letter writing13
private ownership8
burial5
finance5
investment4
mental health4
accounts payable and receivable3

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy35
London, United Kingdom9
Fermo, Italy1
Pisa, Italy1
Rome, Italy1
Worthing, Uk1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haines, Frederick5
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla2
Chapman, Mrs1
Clarke, Charles Cowden1
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
De Wilde1
Gigliucci, Valeria1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Littleton, Augustus1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180033
From 19004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189928
Up to 19999

Archive Sub-series

Accounts

1896-1903

Mary Sabilla's accounts, expenses, receipts and invoices relating to her later years at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. They include domestic and municipal material, documents relating to the death and...

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Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate

1896-1898

Will dated 29 May 1896 with attached probate document. Document in Italian relating to the disposition of Mary Cowden Clarke’s Italian assets. Copy of the will made at the British Consulate in Genoa...

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Gold watch chain

c. 1830

A gold watch chain with engraved gem seal having belonged to Charles Cowden Clarke. The gem is engraved with the Latin 'Placidam sub Libertate quietem' which translates as: 'By the sword we seek peace...

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Vattuone, Giovanni to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

7 Jan 1874

Telegram in Italian from Giovanni Vattuone to (Joseph) Alfred Novello in Genoa, with a note in Italian written in pencil on the reverse. The telegram contains the information that his aunt Adelaide No...

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Expenses, receipts and invoices

1896-1898

Fifteen examples of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's expenses, receipts and invoices, some of which relate to the death and burial of her sister Mary Cowden Clarke in 1898. The majority are written in Italian...

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Copy of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's Will

Sep 1892

A copy of the last Will and Testement of (Mary) Sabilla Novello, dated September 1892. The Will appoints her nephew Giovanni Gigliucci as her Exectutor and legatee and bequethes her property to her ni...

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Cabinet photograph after Joseph Severn's portrait of John Keats

Apr 1876

Cabinet photograph after Joseph Severn's portrait of John Keats on his deathbed in 1821. The reverse is inscribed in the hand of Mary Cowden Clarke with a note on the conditions under which the origin...

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Receipt for the burial of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

25 Aug 1896

Receipt for the payment of the bill for the burial of (Joseph) Alfred Novello from the Office of Hygiene in Genoa, dated 25 August 1896. The bill was paid by his younger sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello.

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Invoice for the headstone of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

5 Sep 1896

Invoice for the headstone of (Joseph) Alfred Novello from a marble workshop in Genoa, Italy. Addressed to his younger sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello and dated 5 September 1896.

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Photograph of the grave of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

c. 1904

Photograph of the grave of (Mary) Sabilla Novello at the Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno (Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno) in Genoa, Italy. An inscription on the reverse in a later hand records tha...

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Photograph of memorial to Keats in Rome

c. 1960

Fragment of a photograph of a memorial to the poet John Keats from the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Italy.

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Treasury receipt for the burial of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

1896

Receipt for the burial of (Joseph) Alfred Novello from the Treasury of the City of Genoa, Italy. Addressed to his younger sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello.

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