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Total number of records: 1479

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1472
Books and printed items6
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive927
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection544
Brotherton Collection117
English Literature1
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing1479
art education286
family146
exhibitions130
publishing117
postcards107
health77
gift giving62
academies and institutes59
poetry50

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom605
Genoa, Italy132
Leeds, United Kingdom67
Beckenham, United Kingdom23
Nice, France18
Rome, Italy18
Croagnes, France14
Paris, France14
Horsham, United Kingdom13
Manchester, United Kingdom13

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria58
Cowden Clarke, Charles30
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Novello, Vincent25
Novello, Clara Anastasia20
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla19
Haines, Frederick17
Hunt, James Henry Leigh16
Novello, Joseph Alfred14
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden13

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 16001
From 17007
From 1800515
From 1900952
From 20003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 16991
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Up to 1899509
Up to 1999951
Up to latest14

Archive Sub-series

Letters

1835-1890

Letters to (Joseph) Alfred Novello related to the operation of the business Novello & Co, his investment in the Cavour Canal and arrangements for his aunt Adelaide Novello's residence in Italy and not...

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Letters and notes

1830-1873

Letters and notes by Charles Cowden Clarke on poetry, illness, a print subscription, mathematics and a parlour game.

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The Paston letters

Gairdner, James (1828-1912)

1983

Reprint. Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1904.

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Letter to Jane de Sausmarez

18 Feb 1972

Handwritten letter to Jane de Sausmarez from an unidentified sender, passing on letters from her husband Maurice de Sausmarez following his death in 1969.

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Draft letter to the spinners and labourers

c. 1854

Draft of a letter addressed 'to the working spinners & labourers generally', which appears to be an early draft of Mary Sabilla Novello's letter to the working classes of Great Britain, with its accom...

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Leigh Hunt and his Letters

c. 1870

Undated handwritten section of the chapter ‘Leigh Hunt and his Letters’ printed in ‘Recollections of Writers’ (1878) by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, comprising pp. 231-272 of the printed te...

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Anonymous letter to Vincent Novello?

c. 1829

One undated and unsigned letter in French, likely to have been sent to Vincent Novello. The letter, from an unknown sender, expresses the hope that Clara Novello and her family will spend the night wi...

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Letter to Maurice de Sausmarez

27 Sep 1964

Handwritten letter from an unidentified sender, likely a parent of a student at Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting that they would prefer to pay by the term rathe...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Letters

1770-1966

Correspondence between members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and their personal and professional networks. Together they illuminate both the everyday lives of the Novello Cowden Clarke family an...

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Memorandum on a letter from Leigh Hunt

29 May 1892

Memoradum by Mary Cowden Clarke dated 29 May 1892 on taking out a letter from Leigh Hunt, which was quoted in their publication 'Recollections of Writers', to place it in Charles Cowden Clarke's prese...

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Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters

3 Dec 1869-15 Mar 1888

Memoranda to re-read Leigh Hunt's letters of 1856 and 1858, initally aloud to her husband Charles Cowden Clarke and then alone after his death.

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Letter from Heckingbottom to Maurice de Sausmarez

8 Jan 1958

Typed letter from Heckingbottom, Manager at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, to Maurice de Sausmarez, confirming the sickness certificates received and sickness benefit paid in 1957.

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