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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection12
Brotherton Collection10

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gift giving3
letter writing3
accounts payable and receivable2
drawing2
finance2
poetry2
art education1
books1
business management1
charities1

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Genoa, Italy5
London, United Kingdom3
Baden-Baden, Germany1
Cannes, France1

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Major, John1
Novello, Vincent1

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From 17001
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Archive Item

Major, John to Novello, Vincent

9 Oct 1844

Handwritten letter from the publisher and bookseller John Major to Vincent Novello, hoping that Novello enjoys the enclosed book. Inserted into Walton and Cotton's book 'The Complete Angler' edited by...

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Poetry

1869-1903

Poems, verses, acrostics, riddles and epigrams written by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, often as birthday gifts for her family and friends. The majority were written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, during...

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Watercolours

c. 1850

Watercolours and some drawings on paper by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are untitled and undated. They include portraits, landscapes, street and rural scenes, architectural studies, bib...

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Poetry

1858-1897

Poems, verses, sonnets and stanzas by Mary Cowden Clarke, with two bound manuscript volumes, notebooks and loose sheets. The majority were written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, in the 1870s and 18...

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Expenses, receipts and invoices

1896-1898

Fifteen examples of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's expenses, receipts and invoices, some of which relate to the death and burial of her sister Mary Cowden Clarke in 1898. The majority are written in Italian...

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Accounts, receipts and invoices

c. 1903

Fifty eight examples of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's accounts, receipts and invoices from the last period of her life, some of which are domestic (relating to her life at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy) an...

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'The Reasons which have determined J. Alfred Novello to reduce the price of his Musical Publications'

1 Jan 1849

Printed circular titled 'The Reasons which have determined J. Alfred Novello to reduce the price of his Musical Publications; the majority of them to the full extent of 50 per cent', explaining that h...

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Brooch with miniature of an infant

c. 1850

Brooch with a glass front, gold edge and metal alloy back and fastening, containing a miniature portrait of an infant in a white bonnet, possibly painted in tempera. A later accompanying note records ...

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Cobden, Richard to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1860

Undated handwritten letter from Richard Cobden to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, describing his wife's recent cold and that she wanted him to write to Novello to say that she could come on Thursday but woul...

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Drawings

1831-1853

Pencil drawings and sketches by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are after the antique and most likely copied from plaster casts as part of her artistic training. It is possible that they d...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Letters

1770-1966

Correspondence between members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and their personal and professional networks. Together they illuminate both the everyday lives of the Novello Cowden Clarke family an...

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