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Total number of records: 11

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection9
Brotherton Collection3
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poetry10
letter writing8
family4
gift giving4
publishing2
writing2
broadcasting1
creative writing1
death1
drawing1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom11
Genoa, Italy3
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Leeds, United Kingdom1
Osaka, Japan1
Worthing, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Charles2
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Haines, Frederick1
Lamb, Charles1
Morris, William1
Novello, Vincent1
Ollier, Edmund1
Serle, Thomas James1
Tours, Berthold1
Wills, William Henry, Baron Winterstoke1

Count of Earliest date

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From 18009
From 19002

Count of Latest date

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Up to 18998
Up to 19993

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James Kirkup to Maurice de Sausmarez

1951-1965

Handwritten and typewritten letters and postcards from the poet and translator James Kirkup to Maurice de Sausmarez and handwritten and typewritten letters from the poet John Betjeman to James Kirkup ...

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Wills, William Henry, Baron Winterstoke to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

11 Mar 1867

Handwritten letter from William Henry Wills to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing a cheque for a poem which appeared in the December 1866 edition of All the Year Round.

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Lamb, Charles to Novello, Vincent

1829-1830

Copies of letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Cowden Clarke in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand. The letters congratulate Novello on his daugter's marriage with a serenata [of Mary Novello to Charles Cowden...

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Poetry

1869-1903

Poems, verses, acrostics, riddles and epigrams written by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, often as birthday gifts for her family and friends. The majority were written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, during...

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Serle, Thomas James to Haines, Frederick

1844-1878

Three handwritten letters from the dramatist Thomas James Serle to the solicitor Frederick Haines, making various arrangements connected with the Novello family. With one newspaper cutting of a poem t...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Morris, William

Aug 1868

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to the designer, poet and artist William Morris, praising Morris's poems 'The Life and Death of Jason' and 'The Earthly Paradise' and mentionin...

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Tours, Berthold to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

19 Jul 1883

Handwritten letter from the Violinist Berthold Tours to Mary Cowden Clarke, thanking Cowden Clarke a copy of her latest published verses and expressing gladness that her health has improved. He notes ...

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'A bad acrostic on a good person' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

Sep 1869

'A bad acrostic on a good person' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, written for Fanny Mozley, who was the mother of the sisters Charlotte Sophia Mozley and Edith Margaret Mozley, who married her nephews Giov...

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Scrapbooks

1846-1897

The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...

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Anthony Simon Thwaite to Maurice de Sausmarez

10 Jul 1962

Handwritten letter from the poet and critic Anthony Simon Thwaite, then Literary Editor of The Listener, to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that Thwaite had moved on from the Third Programme and would li...

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Ollier, Edmund to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1868-1885

Eight handwritten letters from the journalist and writer Edmund Ollier to Charles Cowden Clarke, with one press cutting from the Daily News dated 14 December 1885 on Ollier's fourth and final volume o...

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