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Brotherton Collection7
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7

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gift giving3
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death1
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Genoa, Italy4
London, United Kingdom1

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'Fourteenth February 1879' by Mary Cowden Clarke

Feb 1879

Poem titled 'Fourteenth February 1879' by Mary Cowden Clarke, which begins: 'My Portia is my Valentine...'

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Acrostic 'Alphabet' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

22 Nov 1879

Acrostic 'Alphabet: anticipatory of January 9th, 1880' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello for the birthday of 'Adolphus'. It was written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, on 22 November 1879.

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Two notebooks for 'Love out-lasts Life' by Mary Cowden Clarke

1879

Two small notebooks containing notes and drafts towards the poem 'Love out-lasts Life' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 1879.

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Draft of (Joseph) Alfred Novello's Will

5 Jun 1879

Draft of (Joseph) Alfred Novello's Will dated 5 June 1879, which gives his sisters Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke and (Mary) Sabilla Novello equal shares of his estate.

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‘Benemilda, or The Path of Duty: an Eastern Tale' transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

1876

A manuscript bound in dark green leather with gold embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'This manuscript Copy, made by Charles Cowden Clarke (in 1876) of one of his Wife’s S...

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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...

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Blue and red striped silk carte de visite album

1861-1879

Blue and red striped silk carte de visite album with a red velvet ribbon that contained 12 cartes de visite of members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family, poets, writers and composers, including two ...

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