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Total number of records: 84

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives77
Art items5
Objects2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive57
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection18
Brotherton Collection14
Leeds Animation Workshop8
English Literature1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family84
letter writing35
painting11
portraits11
press cuttings10
art education9
health8
gift giving6
works of art6
decorative arts4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom19
Guernsey4
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Cheltenham, United Kingdom3
Genoa, Italy3
Grenada2
Barcelona, Spain1
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Belgium, Brussels1
Bradford, United Kingdom1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Lamb, Charles1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Novello, Clara Anastasia (Aft. Countessa Gigliucci)1
Novello, Emma Aloysia1
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)1

Count of Earliest date

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From 17001
From 180017
From 190061
From 20005

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189918
Up to 199956
Up to latest10

Archive Item

Letter from George de Sausmarez to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1932

Handwritten letter from George de Sausmarez to his brother Maurice de Sausmarez, dated 10 September and send from Barcelona in Spain. He wishes his brother well for the new term at art school (likely ...

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Maurice de Sausmarez and his circle

c. 1930-1969

Black and white photographs and photographic negatives of Maurice de Sausmarez and his circle of family, friends and collaborators. One album with 54 photographs and 18 loose photographs.The album dat...

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Drawings

c. 1830

Pencil, ink and watercolour sketches by Edward Petre Novello, including portraits of members of the Novello family, illustrations for his sister Mary Cowden Clarke's publications, copies after existin...

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Joan Lean to Maurice de Sausmarez

29 Apr 1964

Handwritten letter from Joan Lean to Maurice de Sausmarez, congratulating de Sausmarez on his election as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts and describing how much she misses his mother Jessie...

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Kathleen Hildick-Smith to Maurice de Sausmarez

1964

Two handwritten letters from Kathleen Hildick-Smith to Maurice de Sausmarez, congratulating him on his election as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts and providing updates on family matters. Hi...

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Maurice de Sausmarez to George de Sausmarez

1939-1968

One handwritten postcard and one handwritten letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to his brother George de Sausmarez. The postcard makes arrangements to meet at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the lett...

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Rachel Stone (née Riggs) to Maurice de Sausmarez

28 Nov 1958

Handwritten letter from Rachel Stone (née Riggs) to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that she had heard about de Sausmarez's appointment at Hornsey College of Art in a local newspaper. Stone recounts the...

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Margaret Mather to Maurice de Sausmarez

1965

Handwritten letter from Margaret, Ian and Kate Mather to Maurice de Sausmarez, describing the challenges of being pregnant and their personal and professional lives and also a printed and handwritten ...

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Simon Willis to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1965

Undated handwritten letter from the artist and art teacher Simon Willis to Maurice de Sausmarez, communicating the arrival of his twin boys and discussing teaching dates, likely at Byam Shaw School of...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

1877-1893

Five letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, beginning with the immediate aftermath of the death of Mary's husband, Charles Cowden Clarke. The letters contain discussion...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

25 Apr 1881

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, which mentions Joseph Severn's final portrait of the poet John Keats, which Mary thinks she saw in 1878 and admired, even if she t...

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Press cutting 'Mrs. Jessie de Sausmerez on a Visit to the Colony'

24 Jan 1939

Press cutting 'Mrs. Jessie de Sausmerez on a Visit to the Colony' from the Grenada Watchman, describing her holiday to Grenada, where she had once lived. The article recalls her time as a piano and vo...

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