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Total number of records: 33

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Art items1

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection33
Brotherton Collection18

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letter writing18
family8
landscape5
drawing4
gift giving4
poetry4
home3
painting3
photographs3
portraits3

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Nice, France33
London, United Kingdom11
Genoa, Italy3
Bristol, United Kingdom1
Devon, United Kingdom1
Liverpool, United Kingdom1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
Paris, France1
Rochester, United Kingdom1

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Novello, Joseph Alfred3
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Dickens, Charles2
Allanda, Guiseppe1
Cobden, Richard1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Farrar, Eliza Ware1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Mylne, Mrs M.1
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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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1856-1867

Two handwritten letters from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke and her husband Charles Cowden Clarke, noting that they were to be invited to see a new play by the author of 'The Lighthouse' on Twe...

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Farrar, Eliza Ware to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 Nov 1857

Handwritten letter from the author Eliza Ware Farrar to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing a gift and questioning whether she will be interested in the advice an American gave to young girls twenty years a...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1852-1858

Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...

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Mylne, M. to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1860

Handwritten letter from M. Mylne to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, requesting that he send a box to her from Nice to Bristol, with further details of the location. Mylne asks to have an account of Novello's...

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Novello, Vincent to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1849-1854

Two handwritten letters from Vincent Novello to his son (Joseph) Alfred Novello. The letter dated 16 January 1849 requests that money be sent to his wife Mary Sabilla Novello and communicates his anno...

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Allanda, Giuseppe to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

17 Apr 1858

Handwritten letter from Giuseppe Allanda to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, negotiating over the price of a house and land and discussing the purchase of the Novello house, with draft reply in Italian.

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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Nicois (pseudonym) to Cobden, Richard

9 Mar 1860

Handwritten letter from 'Nicois' (possibly a pseudonym for (Joseph) Alfred Novello) to the politician Richard Cobden, written in French. Likely to relate to the campaign against 'Taxes on Knowledge'.

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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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Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl) to Novello, Clara Anastasia

28 Apr 1849

Handwritten letter from Mary Sabilla Novello (née Hehl) to her daughter Clara Anastasia Novello, discussing various family matters.

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Novello, (Joseph) Alfred to Novello, Mary Sabilla

15 Jul 1849

Handwritten letter from (Joseph) Alfred Novello to his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, providing detailed family and business updates.

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