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Total number of records: 471

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Archives368
Books and printed items86
Art items9
Objects8

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection291
Brotherton Collection216
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive58
Leeds Russian Archive12
English Literature8
Herbert Read Collection7
Quaker Collection7
Cookery Collection6
Liddle Collection3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2

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family375
letter writing148
drawing56
portraits56
poetry50
gift giving45
painting39
death27
families25
health24

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy111
London, United Kingdom75
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Nice, France8
Great Britain7
Rome, Italy7
England6
Fermo, Italy5
Florence, Italy5
Leeds, United Kingdom5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred9
Novello, Clara Anastasia7
Haines, Frederick6
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla6
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
Novello, Emma Aloysia5
Novello, Vincent5
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden4
Cowden Clarke, Charles4
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria4

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Up to 1899281
Up to 1999170

Archive Item

Christmas card to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1930

Undated Christmas card to Maurice de Sausmarez from his unnamed uncle and great uncle. The front of the card has a black and white photographic image of a chimp and a figure in a suit and hat.

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20th century album

c. 1933

Undated list in pencil in Maurice de Sausmarez's hand of autographs and letters in his uncle Frederick Barlow de Sausmarez's album, beginning with H.G. Wells. Inlcudes notes on family history on the r...

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Autograph book of Mary Sabilla Serle

1860-1861

Green leather autograph book belonging to Mary Sabilla Serle, daughter of Thomas James and Cecilia Serle (née Novello), including entries from her relatives Vincent Novello, (Joseph) Alfred Novello, ...

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Novello family autographs

c. 1850

Various undated Novello Cowden Clarke family autographs, including Vincent Novello, Mary Sabilla Novello, (Joseph) Alfred Novellol, Clara Anastasia Novello, Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke, ...

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Stemma-Novello coat of arms

c. 1854

Watercolour on paper of the Stemma-Novello coat of arms belonging to Clara Novello, with two handwritten notes explaining the context.

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Stemma-Novello coat of arms

c. 1850

Undated hand coloured engraving on paper of the Stemma-Novello coat of arms, with an Italian inscription along the bottom.

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Pope : his descent and family connections : facts and conjectures

Hunter, Joseph (1783-1861)

1857

Bibliography of author's works: pages 47-48.

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The dream of the red chamber : a Chinese novel of the early Ching period

Hung lou meng; Kuhn, Franz (1884-1961)

1958

"The English translation, by Florence and Isabel McHugh, is based on the German version, Der Traum der roten Kammer... which Dr. Franz Kuhn has translated and adapted from the Chinese."--t.p. verso.

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The grass harp; and A tree of night : and other stories

Capote, Truman (1924-1984)

1956

First Signet Book printing, S1333.

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Roman family life

Hodge, Peter

1974

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