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Total number of records: 9

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7
Brotherton Collection2
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing8
family4
health3
travel3
art education2
drawing2
gift giving2
music2
painting2
study tours2

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom9
Rome, Italy6
Genoa, Italy3
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
France1
Nice, France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cusins [William George?]1
Gifford, Edward1
Gigliucci, Porzia1
Haines, Frederick1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Novello, Clara1
Novello, Clara Anastasia (Afterwards Countess Gigliucci)1
Novello, Emma Aloysia1
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)1
Severn, Joseph1

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From 17001
From 18005
From 19003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18995
Up to 19994

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Severn, Joseph to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

9 Nov 1833

Handwritten letter from the artist Joseph Severn to Mary Sabilla Novello, thanking her husband Vincent Novello for the gift of music and noting the long delays in receiving post in Rome. Severn congra...

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Gifford, Edward to Novello, Clara Anastasia

9 May 1901

Typewritten letter from Edward Gifford to Clara Anastasia Novello, thanking Novello for the picture of Father Damien and noting that he was about to send drawings of Novello to Rome.

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Gigliucci, Porzia to Haines, Frederick

16 Jan 1892

Handwritten letter from Porzia Gigliucci to the bank manager Frederick Haines, written on behalf of her aunt. Gigliucci describes her concern for the health of both aunts, Mary Cowden Clarke and (Mary...

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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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Carel Victor Morlais Weight to Maurice de Sausmarez

1958-1969

Typewritten and handwritten letters from the artist Carel Victor Morlais Weight, Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art, to Maurice de Sausmarez, supporting de Sausmarez's application to Ho...

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Letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to Henry Lael Oswald Flecker

22 Jul 1939

Unfinished handwritten letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to his former Headmaster at Christ's Hospital, Henry Lael Oswald Flecker. De Sausmarez thanks Flecker for his letter and congratulations on grad...

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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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Novello, Clara Anastasia to Cusins [William George?]

3 Mar 1882

Handwritten letter from Clara Anastasia Novello to [William George?] Cusins, introducing Cusins to an Italian musician and composer and requesting that he introduce him to his wider professional circl...

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Sketchbooks

1822-1835

Ten sketchbooks belonging to Edward Petre Novello, dating from his time as a student at Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and the Royal Academy of Arts and the period afterwards, including travels to Franc...

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