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Total number of records: 83

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection83
Brotherton Collection70

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poetry83
family26
gift giving18
letter writing17
emotions13
transcription9
writing9
drawing6
photography5
publishing5

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy79
London, United Kingdom12
Florence, Italy4
Rome, Italy3
Nice, France2
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Fermo, Italy1
Milan, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria4
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dickens, Charles1
Holsworth, G.1
Novello, Clara Anastasia1
Ollier, Edmund1
Smith, Miss Leigh1
Story, William Wetmore1
Wills, William Henry1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180081
From 19001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189979
Up to 19994

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GIGLIUCCI, Porzia

1852-1873

A poem transcribed by Porzia Gigliucci and photographic portraits of her as a child and later as an adult, dressed as Thalia from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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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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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

11 Nov 1883

Handwritten draft letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Anne Gilchrist, apologising for the delay in her acknowledgement of the gift of Gilchrist's book on Mary Lamb as a result of her travels. She praise...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

3 Jan 1880

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, thanking him for his last letter and encouraging him to rise above his negative thoughts. She quotes Leigh Hunt and writes of her deb...

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MS Poems by MCC volume 1 of 2

1858-1876

Manuscript poems by Mary Cowden Clarke in a bound volume with dark green leather cover, gold decorative details and gilt page edges. Written in her husband Charles Cowden Clarke's hand. Inscribed '(1s...

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Album with portraits, sketches and poems

1863-1873

An album containing portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics. The cover is embossed with a decoartive border and 'Album' in gilt lettering. A loose sheet written in blue ink records that the album was...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Ollier, Edmund

27 Sep 1868

Draft handwritten letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, noting Ollier's support for a memorial to their mutual friend, the poet Leigh Hunt. Along with his wife Mary Cowden Clarke, they o...

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'Serenade' by Mary Cowden Clarke

17 May 1885

'Serenade' by Mary Cowden Clarke, 'altered to please Mrs. Tennant, for her husband's setting to music as a solo'. Written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 17 Mary 1885. A note at the bottom ...

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Manuscript of fables by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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'Sonnet to Charles Cowden Clarke' by Mary Cowden Clarke

15 Dec 1875

Poem titled 'Sonnet to Charles Cowden Clarke' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 15 December 1875.

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Transcript of Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar' by Mary Cowden Clarke

Oct 1892

Transcript of AlfredTennyson's poem 'Crossing the Bar' by Mary Cowden Clarke for her sister Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (nee Novello), written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated October 1892.

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