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Total number of records: 104

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Archives102
Art items1
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection104
Brotherton Collection88

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poetry91
family27
gift giving22
letter writing19
transcription17
emotions14
writing10
drawing8
painting5
music4

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy54
London, United Kingdom9
Baden-Baden, Germany2
Cannes, France2
Florence, Italy2
Karlsruhe, Germany2
Battle, United Kingdom1
Berlin, Germany1
Dresden, Germany1
Edinburgh, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Charles8
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Haines, Frederick2
Grimstone, Mary Leman1
Hume, George1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Isnard, Robert J.1
Lamb, Charles1
Monckton-Milnes, Richard1
Morris, William1

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From 17002
From 1800102

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Up to 17991
Up to 1899102
Up to 19991

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Poem by Carolina Coronado

6 Mar 1853

Handwritten poem in Spanish by the writer and poet Victoria Carolina Coronado y Romero de Tejada for Contessa Gigliucci, Clara Anastasia Novello.

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Poem by William Morris

c. 1870

Poem by William Morris transcribed by an unknown hand, titled 'Two Red Roses Across the Moon', illustrated with ink drawings.

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Commendatory poems on Milton

c. 1850

Undated handwritten transcript of verses by Dryden and others in praise of Milton in Charles Cowden Clarke's hand, written in a green booklet.

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Poem to Edith Margaret Mozley

c. 1869

Poem to Edith Margaret Mozley written on yellow paper beginning ‘Hotel Beau Site. Cannes. May the twelfth, Dear Miss Edith…’ Possibly by her future sister-in-law Valeria Gigliucci.

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Album with portraits, sketches and poems

1863-1873

An album containing portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics. The cover is embossed with a decoartive border and 'Album' in gilt lettering. A loose sheet written in blue ink records that the album was...

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Transcript of poems by Thomas Hood

c. 1870

Transcripts of poems by Thomas Hood: 'Her Accident', 'Her Fancy-Ball' and 'Miss Kilmansegg!' in an unknown hand, possibly Mary Cowden Clarke or Charles Cowden Clarke. The size of the handwriting sugge...

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Poems to Emily Henrietta Greenaway

Jul 1873

Two poems to Emily Henrietta Greenaway by Charles Cowden Clarke, transcribed by his wife Mary Cowden Clarke in July 1873.

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Poem by Anna Laetitia Barbauld

c. 1800

Undated handwritten poem by the poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld, beginning ‘Life! I know not what thou art'.

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Poems by Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin

1739

Three handwritten poems on German themes by Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin. The first is titled ‘Song on leaving Berlin’ and dated November 1739.

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Album including copies of Coleridge's poems

c. 1834

Red leather album with gilt page edges, including copies of Coleridge's poems. The inscription reads: 'This little book belongs to Mary Sabilla Novello endeared to her by the kind contributions of her...

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MS Poems by MCC volume 1 of 2

1858-1876

Manuscript poems by Mary Cowden Clarke in a bound volume with dark green leather cover, gold decorative details and gilt page edges. Written in her husband Charles Cowden Clarke's hand. Inscribed '(1s...

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MS Poems by MCC volume 2 of 2

1876-1897

Manuscript poems by Mary Cowden Clarke written in her own hand in a bound volume with dark green leather cover, gold decorative details and gilt page edges.

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