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Total number of records: 1353

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Archives1347
Art items3
Objects3

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1047
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection305
Brotherton Collection170

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letter writing605
art education403
exhibitions302
academies and institutes108
publishing104
painting85
family72
interest groups64
music59
students59

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London, United Kingdom1352
Leeds, United Kingdom52
Genoa, Italy36
Nice, France11
Croagnes, France8
Horsham, United Kingdom6
Rome, Italy6
Vienna, Austria6
Paris, France5
Berlin (Germany)4

Top 10: People and organisations

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria15
Novello, Vincent12
Cowden Clarke, Charles11
Hunt, James Henry Leigh10
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred9
Haines, Frederick8
Novello, Joseph Alfred5
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla4
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)4

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From 1800287
From 19001053
From 20008

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Up to 1899278
Up to 19991058
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Collier, John Payne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

3 Feb 1846

Handwritten letter from John Payne Collier to Mary Cowden Clarke, noting that he had to leave London due to illness and had left money with a servant of her brother, (Joseph) Alfred Novello, although ...

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Collier, John Payne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 Dec 1846

Handwritten letter from John Payne Collier to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing the opinion that the work of great men is their most enduring monument, but that this did not preclude his support for her ...

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Collier, John Payne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

26 Dec 1847

Handwritten letter from John Payne Collier to Mary Cowden Clarke, thanking her for the Christmas gift of a book. He points out one fault with it: that the quotations are not referenced and he had to r...

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Collier, John Payne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

28 Nov 1848

Handwritten letter from John Payne Collier to Mary Cowden Clarke, assuring her that he will pass on a copy of the plate she had requested, which was being engraved by Cousins (likely Samuel Cousins). ...

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Darby, Eleanor to Novello, Vincent

11 Jan 1847

Handwritten letter from Eleanor Darby to Vincent Novello, which praises his daughter Mary Cowden Clarke's proposal to erect a monument to Shakespeare, to be paid for by subscriptions from women. She w...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Charles

5 May 1849

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Charles Cowden Clarke, mentioning a school for orphans and support for one orphan in particular, which may be a comic description as it appears to relate to ...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

17 Jun 1866

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, expressing his pleasure in retaining an article published during the Christmas period and planning contributions for the year, likely ref...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

29 Mar 1851

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, recalling previous dinners and suppers and the idea that the world was a stage. Dickens describes other memories and what has triggered t...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

5 Aug 1848

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, discussing her scholarship on Shakespeare alongside her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and noting two forthcoming works on the same subjec...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

13 Jan 1849

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, written on mourning paper and discussing the delay in a payment to Cowden Clarke.

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

22 Jul 1848

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, complaining that he has no energy and is miserable, expressing the wish to be a vagabond without domestic duties. He laments having so ma...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

7 Jul 1848

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, noting the date of a performance at ‘Miss Kelly’s Temple of Mirth’ [Miss Kelley’s Theatre] at 73 Dean Street, Soho, London, at 7p...

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