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Total number of records: 92

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items47
Archives45

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection92
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection44
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel92
diaries20
music10
drawing6
family6
classical music5
letter writing4
music publishing4
poetry4
biography as topic3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Vienna, Austria13
England12
Salzburg, Austria11
Paris, France9
Africa, Central4
Africa, North4
Germany4
Italy4
London, United Kingdom4
Middle East4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Barth, Heinrich (1821-1865)4
Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)3
Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene Vicomte De (1768-1848)3
Jervis, John2
Jervis, John (1802-1856)2
Kitchiner, William (1775?-1827)2
About, Edmond (1828-1885)1
Antrobus, M E1
Bairacli-Levy, Juliette De1
Baker, Frederick Nolan (1872-)1

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From 16002
From 17006
From 180060
From 190016
From 20008

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Up to 17993
Up to 189965
Up to 199919
Up to latest3

Archive Collection

Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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NOVELLO, Vincent

1808-1964

Five boxes containing jewellery, legal documents, manuscript music, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, photographs and the travel diaries from Vincent Novello's journey across Europe with his wife Mary Sa...

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NOVELLO, Mary Sabilla (née HEHL)

1789-1860

Mary Sabilla Novello's pocket watch, Will, drafts of letters and songs, thoughts on Christianity and the working classes, scrapbooks and commonplace books, family accounts, prose manuscripts, portrait...

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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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Archive File

Music

1854-1860

Printed tickets for members of the Novello family for entry into the Crystal Palace, for their participation in the opening ceremony in 1854 and the Handel Festival in 1857. Also includes a printed ad...

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Archive File

Travel

1829

Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello travelled through Europe in 1829 and both kept diaries from this time. The file contains Vincent Novello's diaries along with associated letters, memo...

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Travel

1829-1850

Original travel diaries and later transcriptions from Mary Sabilla Novello's journey across Europe in the summer of 1829 with her husband Vincent Novello, including details of their visits to Mozart's...

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Societies

1831-1840

One bound volume and one portrait associated with 'The Tortoise Club', formed by Edward Petre Novello and his brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello in 1831. Along with their friends, they went on excusions ...

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Traveller's thoughts; or, lines suggested by a tour on the continent, in the summer of 1835

Leatham, William Henry (1815-1889)

1841

Contents: France. -- Switzerland and Italy. --The Rhine, Belgium, &c.

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Typescript of Mary Sabilla Novello's account of a visit to Mozart's widow and sister

1829

Tyepscript of Mary Sabilla Novello's account of her visit to Mozart's widow and sister with her husband Vincent Novello in the summer of 1829. This copy was typed in 1951 and is titled 'Visit to Mozar...

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The Tortoise Club

1831-1833

A bound volume relating to 'The Tortoise Club' formed by Edward Petre Novello and his brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello and three of their friends. The volume contains mock regularions for the unofficia...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Gigliucci, Porzia and Gigliucci, Valeria

14 Apr 1880

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to Porzia and Valeria Gigliucci ('the lilies'), explaining her absence as a result of recent ill health and ongoing weakness. She describes a brief visit to t...

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