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Total number of records: 82

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Archives79
Books and printed items2
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection65
Brotherton Collection36
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive15

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family82
letter writing45
death12
health11
finance10
painting10
photography9
poetry9
portraits9
gift giving8

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom72
Genoa, Italy24
Nice, France4
Florence, Italy3
Leeds, United Kingdom3
Rome, Italy3
Hastings, United Kingdom2
Barcelona, Spain1
Belgium, Brussels1
Bradford, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haines, Frederick5
Hunt, James Henry Leigh4
Cowden Clarke, Charles3
Gigliucci, Giovanni3
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred3
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)3
Novello, Vincent3
Knight, Samuel (1759-1827)2
Lamb, Charles2
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla2

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From 17001
From 180061
From 190020

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189957
Up to 199925

Archive Item

Gigliucci, Giovanni to Haines, Frederick

14 Jan 1898

Handwritten copy of a letter from Giovanni Gigliucci to Frederick Haines, Manager of the London and Westminter Bank, informing him of the death of his aunt Mary Cowden Clarke and requesting, on behalf...

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Novello family baptism records

1810-1894

Official extracts from baptism records with the dates of birth and baptism of the children of Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello, including those who did not survive into adulthood. The children were ba...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

10 Aug 1875

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, discussing a mutual acquaintance and her choice of a professional position in London or Paris. She passes on praise for...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Ollier, Edmund

17 Aug 1881

Draft handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, thanking him for yesterday's note. She records that she and her sister Sabilla Novello have been staying with the Littletons in Londo...

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Rosamund Henriques to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez

1963-1967

Two letters from Rosamund Henriques to Jane and Maurice de Sausmarez, the handwritten letter expresses regret at not being able to accept an invitation to visit them in London and hoping to meet them ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

17 Jul 1875

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, describing her sleep being disturbed by thunder, but resting well afterwards and enjoying the cooler weather. She walke...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

6 Jul 1875

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, which records her receipt of a letter from Mr. William E. Mozley, with which she was so pleased that she enclosed it fo...

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BC MS NCC/11/2/1 Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)
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Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard. The reverse is inscribed with the following: 'Portrait of Mother & Father an enlarg...

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BC MS NCC/10/4/1 untitled oil sketch [portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by Henry Sass]
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untitled oil sketch [portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by Henry Sass]

c. 1830

Undated portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by (John) Henry Sass. An inscription on the reverse reads: 'Oil sketch of Emma Aloysia Novello Painted by Mr. Sass when she was a pupil at his Academy of Desig...

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Portrait of Catherine Hehl after Joshua Cristall

c. 1830

An undated pencil portrait of Catherine Hehl by Edward Petre Novello, after a portrait by the artist Joshua Cristall. Catherine Hehl (later Catherine Collins) was Edward Petre Novello's aunt, who was ...

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Letters from Irene Powell Williams to Maurice de Sausmarez

Sep 1933

2 handwritten letters sent in the same envelope from Irene Powell Williams to her cousin Maurice de Sausmarez, dated 22 and 29 September. She notes that Professor Randolph Schwabe, the Slade Professor...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

20 Jul 1875

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, describing visits from Dr. Costa (requesting to be allowed to bring his children to Villa Novello to watch the regatta...

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