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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Brotherton Collection2

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family5
letter writing5
childhood1
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Fermo, Italy6
Genoa, Italy4
London, United Kingdom2
Florence, Italy1
Rome, Italy1

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Canning, Stratford, 1st Viscount Stratford De Radcliffe1
Cavendish, William, 6th Duke of Devonshire1
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Novello, Clara1

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Archive Collection

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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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

22 May 1877

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, written on mourning paper following the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke on 13 March 1877. Mary accepts the invitation t...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

24 Jun 1879

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, describing her pleasure at the 'loan' of Clara's daughters Porzia and Valeria Gigliucci, presumably to assist her with a piece of ...

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Canning, Stratford, 1st Viscount Stratford de Radcliffe to Cavendish, William, 6th Duke of Devonshire

12 Oct 1842

Handwritten letter from Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Radcliffe to William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, acknowledging the letter requesting assistance for Clara Anastasia Novello,...

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Locks of hair

1842-1908

Locks of hair belonging to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in a paper envelope inscribed in ink, with a pencil portrait in profile by either his wife Clara Anastasia Novello or sister-in-law Emma Aloysia ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

31 Jul 1877

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Novello, written on mourning paper following the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke. She thanks Novello for her letter and mentio...

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