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Autograph album
1926-1929
Autograph album with leather binding, gilt lettering and edges and blue marbled endpapers. Inscribed in ink: 'Xmas. 1926 L.M. de Sausmarez from Mam.' Includes autographs, quotations and sketches datin...
Cover of a scrapbook
1846
Cover of a scrapbook with a brown leather spine and gilt lettering. The inside cover is inscribed: 'Mary Sabilla Novello 9 Craven Hill Bayswater From her loving Papa [Vincent Novello]. April 16th Shak...
Sketch of York after F. Nycholson
9 May 1828
Pencil sketch of York by Edward Petre Novello after a lithographic print by F. Nycholson, for his brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, who was at the time apprenticed to the organist and music seller John...
'Conceit' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello
27 Dec 1883
'Conceit: with a piece of point lace, given Dec. 27th 1883' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello. The short verse commemorates a gift of lace given to her niece, Porzia Gigliucci. Written in Genoa, Italy.
Poem on the death of Charles Cowden Clarke by Thomas Serle
5 Apr 1877
Poem written by Thomas Serle to Mary Cowden Clarke on the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 5 April 1877.
Family history
1926-1974
Materials relating to the history of the de Sausmarez family, a branch of which is spelt de Saumarez. Includes 2 autograph albums, 8 press cuttings and a Christmas card.
Christmas card
c. 1965
Undated printed Christmas card designed by Maurice de Sausmarez and his second wife Jane and inscribed on the reverse: 'All our love - Maurice, Jane, Emma & Benedict'. Their youngest child at the time...
Design for a Christmas card
Dec 1967
Design for a Christmas card in black ink and marker pen on gridded paper by Maurice de Sausmarez and his second wife Jane. The geometric design is based on squares and rectangles coloured in pink, gre...
Sketch of Clara Anastasia Novello
c. 1830
Undated pencil portrait of Clara Anastasia Novello in profile, by her brother Edward Petre Novello. She is depicted from the neck up, wearing long earings and her hair in a bun. The collar of her clot...
Notes
1840-1947
Various notes relating to the Novello Cowden Clarke family, including fragments of book dedications, biographical notes, autographs and puzzles.
Manuscript of fables by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke
Dec 1877
Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...
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...