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Total number of records: 156

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives148
Objects7
Art items1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection130
Brotherton Collection81
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive26

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
gift giving156
letter writing62
family45
poetry41
drawing22
transcription17
writing16
literature10
portraits10
books9

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom37
Genoa, Italy30
Nice, France4
Manchester, United Kingdom3
Rome, Italy3
Baden-Baden, Germany2
Bruges, Belgium2
Edinburgh, United Kingdom2
Exeter, United Kingdom2
Leeds, United Kingdom2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria14
Cowden Clarke, Charles9
Hunt, James Henry Leigh3
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden2
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Novello, Mary Sabilla2
Novello, Vincent2
Ackroyd, Mr1
Christie, Alexander1
Clarke, Charles Cowden1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 1800126
From 190029

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899119
Up to 199937

Archive Series

NOVELLO, Clara Anastasia

1838-1910

Material related to the soprano singer Clara Anastasia Novello, including a gift presented to her; notes, manuscripts and partial typescripts for 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' published in 1910; hon...

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NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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Photographs

1842-1913

Photographs and cartes de visite of musical, literary, theatrical and religious figures belonging to the Novello Cowden Clarke family, many of which were presented as gifts from the sitters. Also incl...

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Christie, Alexander to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1848-1851

Handwritten letters and ink sketches from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke.

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Hunt, James Henry Leigh

1832-1856

Three handwritten letters from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to the poet Leigh Hunt, one in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand. The letter thanks Hunt for the gift of books and fondly recalls the circumstance...

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BC MS NCC/20/024 Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, letter (1870), page 1
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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

1848-1870

Twenty two handwritten draft letters and copies of letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens, mentioning shared social occasions, participation in rehearsals and theatrical performances, offe...

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Coleridge, Sir John Duke, Baron Coleridge to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1879

Two handwritten letters on mourning paper from Sir John Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief justice of England, to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing his book for her, noting that there are only 75 copies and menti...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1840-1856

Fifteen handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, dating from 20 February 1840 to 14 October [1856], with ten undated. The letter of 2 October 1856 is a copy in Mary Cowden C...

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