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Total number of records: 33

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection29
Brotherton Collection7
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive4

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poetry33
letter writing25
publishing10
family9
gift giving8
music6
literature5
drawing4
writing4
health3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom33
Genoa, Italy12
Nice, France3
Leeds, United Kingdom2
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Berlin (Germany)1
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Osaka, Japan1
Rome, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria7
Cowden Clarke, Charles4
Hunt, James Henry Leigh4
Holsworth, G.2
Lamb, Charles2
Ollier, Edmund2
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Novello, Vincent1
Dickens, Charles1

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From 17001
From 180028
From 19004

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189925
Up to 19998

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

13 Jan 1853

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, expressing her admiration for his verses.

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

23 Apr 1860

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, acknowledging her previous letter and explaining the brevity of his reply. He writes about two sonnets and requests that she takes note o...

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Gilchrist, Anne to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

6 Apr 1884

Handwritten letter from Anne Gilchrist to Mary Cowden Clarke, thanking her for the selection of sonnets and praising their expressive content and emotional effect. She goes on to describe the location...

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'A Copy of Verses' by Thomas Gardner

c. 1830

Undated printed copy of 'A Copy of Verses, humbly presented to all my worthy masters and mistresses, of the parish of St.Giles in the Fields, in Drury-lane Division' by Thomas Gardner of 23 King Stree...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Holsworth, G.

16 May 1868

Handwritten draft of a letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to G. Holdworth of the journal All the Year Round, thanking him for the cheque for eight guineas as payment for her verse story 'The Yule Log' and...

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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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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

28 Jan 1878

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, in which she begins by explaining that she uses his full name because to her, 'Mr. Ollier' refers to his father, the publisher Charle...

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Holsworth, G. to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

11 May 1868

Handwritten letter from G. Holsworth to Mary Cowden Clarke, sent on behalf of William Henry Wills from the journal All the Year Round, enclosing a cheque for her verse story 'The Yule Log' which was p...

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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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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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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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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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