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Total number of records: 15

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection15
Brotherton Collection3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel15
letter writing13
health8
family4
poetry2
childhood1
death1
drawing1
finance1
home1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy15
Rome, Italy6
London, United Kingdom4
Florence, Italy3
Fermo, Italy1
Kent, United Kingdom1
Nice, France1
Pisa, Italy1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bell, John1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden-Clarke, Charles & Cowden-Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dickens, Charles1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Novello, Emma Aloysia1
Novello, Vincent & Novello, Mary Sabilla1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180014

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189913
Up to 19992

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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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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

30 Oct 1867

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, noting Dickens' forthcoming visit to America and sending their best wishes for his tr...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Vincent and Novello, Mary Sabilla

1821-1823

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello, dating from 24 December 1821 to 25 July 1823 and containing references to Hunt's health, comic v...

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BC MS NCC/20/297 Emma Novello to (Joseph) Alfred Novello 8 July 1866 1
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Novello, Emma Aloysia to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1857-1880

Thirty three handwritten letters from Emma Aloysia Novello to her brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, concerning family financial arrangements, her aspiration to make a career as an artist, portraits she...

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Bell, John to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

25 Feb 1867

Letter from the sculptor John Bell to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, in which John describes his surprise at finding himself in Italy, having sailed for ten days from France. He records the beauty of...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

19 Apr 1884

Handwritten draft letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Anne Gilchrist, thanking her for her letters and praising her character and work on the poet Mary Lamb. She also thanks her for her praise of 'Keat'...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gilchrist, Anne

13 Feb 1885

Handwritten draft letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Anne Gilchrist, in which she describes a meeting with a mutual friend and her desire to see Gilchrist's home. She intends to enclose several autogra...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

15 Aug 1881

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, recording her imminent return to Italy from London and her gratitude to Ollier for his letter about Percy and Mary Shelley.

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

8 Jan 1882

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, noting that she had given a letter to Cowden Clarke to some old friends who are staying in Genoa, Italy, to recover their heal...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

25 May 1880

Postcard from Dinah Maria Craik to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, requesting an address and noting that they have arrived home safely, but are missing Italy following their visit.

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 May 1880

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, recording Craik and her husband's new friendship with 'the lilies', referring to the daughters of Mary's sister Clara Anastasi...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

12 Mar 1884

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, apologising that she would have written sooner but had been unwell since the first day of their travels. She writes that her husban...

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