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Total number of records: 6

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Brotherton Collection4

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letter writing3
poetry3
child labour1
children1
drawing1
european literature1
family1
gift giving1
history1
journalism1

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Genoa, Italy2
London, United Kingdom2

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Bickers and Son (Publishers)1
Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Littleton, Mr1
Ollier, Edmund1

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Transcript of Lamb's letter on Shakespeare by Mary Cowden Clarke

Nov 1885

Transcript of Charles Lamb's letter to the editor on Shakespeare, published in The Spectator on 22 November 1828 and copied by Mary Cowden Clarke in November 1885.

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'Lines on the photograph of M.H.'s favourite dog'

27 Feb 1885

Poem titled 'Lines on the photograph of M.H.'s favourite dog' dated 27 February 1885, with a copy of a photograph of Mary Cowden Clarke with her name inscribed in her hand beneath.

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Bickers and Son to Littleton, Henry

1 Apr 1884

Handwritten letter from the publishers Bickers and Son to Henry Littleton, with a payment for £50 for 300 copies and the moulds for 'The Shakespeare Key' by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, with detai...

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'Serenade' by Mary Cowden Clarke

17 May 1885

'Serenade' by Mary Cowden Clarke, 'altered to please Mrs. Tennant, for her husband's setting to music as a solo'. Written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 17 Mary 1885. A note at the bottom ...

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Sketch of 'A Scrub'

c. 1830

A pencil sketch mounted on cardboard by Edward Petre Novello, of a child wearing a dress and apron, stood on a stool to scrub a table with a brush in their proper right hand. The drawing is inscribed ...

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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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