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Total number of records: 11

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection10
Brotherton Collection8
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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gift giving11
family8
drawing7
illustration7
literature4
letter writing3
poetry3
publishing2
accounts payable and receivable1
charities1

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Genoa, Italy5
London, United Kingdom5

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Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Meadows, Joseph Kenny1
Ollier, Edmund1

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From 19001

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Up to 18997
Up to 19994

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Album with illustrations, greetings cards and prints

1879-1897

Album containing (Mary) Sabilla Novello’s illustrations to her sister Mary Cowden Clarke’s ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines' dated to 1879 and 1884. Also including Christmas, New Year a...

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Illustrations for 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1884

Illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, contained in a sketchbook with dark blue leather covers with gilt geometic details...

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Illustrations for ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines’ by Isabel Scott and (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1838-1903

Fifteen drawings illustrating Mary Cowden Clarke’s ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines’, with drawings by Isabel Scott and 3 sketches by (Mary) Sabilla Novello designed to illustrate the s...

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Sketchbooks

1838-1903

Two volumes of pencil illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, first published in 1851.

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Meadows, Joseph Kenny to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

5 May 1851

Handwritten letter on mourning paper from the illustrator Joseph Kenny Meadows to Mary Cowden Clarke, apologising for the delay in his reply to her letter and thanking her for the copy of her book 'Th...

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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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Scrapbooks

1846-1897

The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...

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Maurice de Sausmarez to Ben Nichsolson

Jan 1969

Copy of a typewritten letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to Ben Nicholson, in which de Sausmarez describes the disruption of a recent illness and the birth of their son Daniel. He thanks Nicholson again...

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Ollier, Edmund to Cowden Clarke, Charles

1868-1885

Eight handwritten letters from the journalist and writer Edmund Ollier to Charles Cowden Clarke, with one press cutting from the Daily News dated 14 December 1885 on Ollier's fourth and final volume o...

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Sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, 1838

1838

A sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello containing pencil sketches of furniture, faces, characters, flowers and landscapes, many of which are dated 1838. The sketchbook has a green leather sp...

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Scrapbook with Christmas and New Year cards

1832-1882

A scrapbook belonging to Mary Cowden Clarke. The contents include Christmas and New Year greetings cards covering the period 1832-1882. 278 cards and collaged fragments across 54 pages. Designs includ...

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