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Total number of records: 12

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection12
Brotherton Collection11

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poetry7
family6
gift giving3
publishing3
transcription3
editing2
letter writing2
music2
writing2
childhood1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy12
London, United Kingdom3
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Germany1
Nice, France1
Rome, Italy1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Gowing, Richard1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180011

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189910
Up to 19992

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

1858-1868

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. Titled 'Poems C.C.C.' in red on the front cover, with decorative gold borders and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as ...

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

27 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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Editing

c. 1899

One loose manuscript and one bound manuscript in three volumes of Simon's Hehl's memoir, variously titled 'Memoirs of a German Student' and 'My Grandfather's Life', edited by his maternal granddaughte...

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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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MS Poems by MCC volume 2 of 2

1876-1897

Manuscript poems by Mary Cowden Clarke written in her own hand in a bound volume with dark green leather cover, gold decorative details and gilt page edges.

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Poetry

1858-1897

Poems, verses, sonnets and stanzas by Mary Cowden Clarke, with two bound manuscript volumes, notebooks and loose sheets. The majority were written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, in the 1870s and 18...

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Lecture notes by Charles Cowden Clarke

May 1877

Manuscript volume of lecture notes by Charles Cowden Clarke. A letter on mourning paper from his wife Mary Cowden Clarke records the following: 'This manuscript lecture, in Charles Cowden Clarke's own...

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A Collection of Dances

1815

One volume of manuscript music bound in brown leather, titled 'A Collection of Dances, Composed for his Children by V. Novello'. Sold by Cabusac & Sons, 196 Strand, London. Presented to Porzia Gigliuc...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gowing, Richard

3 Mar 1876-11 May 1876

Two handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Richard Gowing, noting her husband Charles Cowden Clarke's ill health and that they had sent a section of manuscript for their 'Recollections of Writ...

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Copy of a letter from (Mary) Sabilla Novello to Mrs Fields

May 1899

Copy of a letter from (Mary) Sabilla Novello to Mrs Fields dated May 1899, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. It concerns the manuscript of the memoir by her German maternal grandfather, Simon ...

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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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