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Total number of records: 130

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives123
Objects6
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection130
Brotherton Collection81

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
gift giving130
letter writing51
poetry41
family40
drawing21
transcription17
writing16
literature10
books9
portraits9

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy30
London, United Kingdom30
Nice, France4
Manchester, United Kingdom3
Rome, Italy3
Baden-Baden, Germany2
Bruges, Belgium2
Edinburgh, United Kingdom2
Exeter, United Kingdom2
Maidenhead, United Kingdom2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria14
Cowden Clarke, Charles9
Hunt, James Henry Leigh3
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden2
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Novello, Mary Sabilla2
Novello, Vincent2
Ackroyd, Mr1
Christie, Alexander1
Clarke, Charles Cowden1

Count of Earliest date

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From 17001
From 1800126
From 19003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899119
Up to 199911

Archive Series

NOVELLO, Clara Anastasia

1838-1910

Material related to the soprano singer Clara Anastasia Novello, including a gift presented to her; notes, manuscripts and partial typescripts for 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' published in 1910; hon...

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NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Christie, Alexander to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1848-1851

Handwritten letters and ink sketches from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke.

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

1832-1856

Three handwritten letters from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to the poet Leigh Hunt, one in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand. The letter thanks Hunt for the gift of books and fondly recalls the circumstance...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dennel, Charles F.

17 Jan 1852

Copy of a letter from Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke to Charles F. Dennel, noting that Abbott Lawrence had forwarded the testimonial chair from America alongside a letter of appreciation. Cowden Clarke i...

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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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Coleridge, Sir John Duke, Baron Coleridge to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1879

Two handwritten letters on mourning paper from Sir John Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief justice of England, to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing his book for her, noting that there are only 75 copies and menti...

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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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Frost, Wlliam Edward to Humphrys, William

13 Oct 1863

Handwritten letter from the painter William Edward Frost to the engraver William Humphrys, in which Frost presents a pencil sketch of Edward Petre Novello to Humphrys, drawn by the artist Thomas Sewel...

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