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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection16
Brotherton Collection14

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poetry7
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jewelry2
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Genoa, Italy8
Fermo, Italy2
London, United Kingdom2
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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dalby, John Watson1

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Crystal Palace Company Ordinary Capital A stock certificate

10 Dec 1877

Crystal Palace Company Ordinary Capital A stock certificate in the name of Emma Aloysia Novello, dated 10 December 1877.

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Crystal Palace Company Ordinary Capital B stock certificate

10 Dec 1877

Crystal Palace Company Ordinary Capital B stock certificate in the name of Emma Aloysia Novello, dated 10 December 1877.

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Poem on the death of Charles Cowden Clarke by Thomas Serle

5 Apr 1877

Poem written by Thomas Serle to Mary Cowden Clarke on the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 5 April 1877.

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'On Correggio's "Flight into Egypt"' by Mary Cowden Clarke

31 Jan 1877

Poem titled 'On Correggio's "Flight into Egypt"' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 31 January 1877.

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

22 May 1877

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, written on mourning paper following the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke on 13 March 1877. Mary accepts the invitation t...

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Transcript of Longfellow's sonnet 'Holidays' by Mary Cowden Clarke

26 Nov 1877

Transcript of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's sonnet 'Holidays' by Mary Cowden Clarke, copied for Amelia Mozley at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 26 November 1877. There is a p...

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'The Tetterbys' from 'The Haunted Man'

8 Oct 1877

One hand-drawn illustrated draft in pencil and ink and three printed copies of a programme for a performance of 'The Tetterbys' from 'The Haunted Man' by Charles Dickens at Villa Novello in Genoa on 8...

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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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SERLE, Emma Clara

1860-1861

Two pencil on paper portraits drawn by Emma Clara Serle, who was the eldest surviving daughter of Cecilia Serle (née Novello) and Thomas James Serle and the granddaughter of Vincent Novello. She was ...

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Manuscript of fables by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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Manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

27 Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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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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