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Total number of records: 6

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
Brotherton Collection2
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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gift giving6
letter writing4
family2
landscape2
painting2
poetry2
animals1
books1
childhood1
childrens books1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Nice, France4
Genoa, Italy2
London, United Kingdom2
France1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
Rome, Italy1
Vaucluse, France1

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Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Dickens, Charles1
Farrar, Eliza Ware1

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From 18005
From 19001

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Up to 18995
Up to 19991

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Benjamin Fairfax Hall to Jane de Sausmarez

16 Jul 1971

Handwritten letter from the printer Benjamin Fairfax Hall to Jane de Sausmarez, expressing his pleasure on receiving a painting of a landscape in Vaucluse, France, by her late husband Maurice de Sausm...

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Sketchbooks

1822-1835

Ten sketchbooks belonging to Edward Petre Novello, dating from his time as a student at Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and the Royal Academy of Arts and the period afterwards, including travels to Franc...

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Farrar, Eliza Ware to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

4 Nov 1857

Handwritten letter from the author Eliza Ware Farrar to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing a gift and questioning whether she will be interested in the advice an American gave to young girls twenty years a...

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

1858-1868

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. Titled 'Poems C.C.C.' in red on the front cover, with decorative gold borders and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as ...

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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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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

17 Aug 1850

Handwritten letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to Mary Cowden Clarke, in which Gaskell notes that she requested Cowden Clarke's address to write to her and expresses concern that the books she is sending w...

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