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Total number of records: 6

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Brotherton Collection2

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letter writing4
family3
gift giving2
poetry2
travel2
architecture1
books1
city planning1
drama1
houses1

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Genoa, Italy6
Nice, France3
London, United Kingdom2
Rome, Italy1

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Bell, John1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden-Clarke, Charles & Cowden-Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dickens, Charles1
Gigliucci, Porzia, Contessa1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Novello, Emma Aloysia1

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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 Gigliucci, Porzia

18 Jan 1884

Handwritten letter from Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke to her niece Porzia Gigliucci, describing how she was thinking of her after she had left, through the arrangement of flowers and foliage they had ar...

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Villa Novello

c. 1860-1913

Photographs, cartes de visite and the visitors' book of Villa Novello in Genoa, in the Italian region of Liguria. Mary Cowden Clarke, her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and her brother (Joseph) Alfred ...

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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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BC MS NCC/20/024 Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, letter (1870), page 1
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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

1848-1870

Twenty two handwritten draft letters and copies of letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens, mentioning shared social occasions, participation in rehearsals and theatrical performances, offe...

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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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