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Total number of records: 134

Count of Collection group

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive90
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection44
Brotherton Collection6

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
publishing134
letter writing117
art books39
periodicals18
art education13
illustrations13
family12
poetry10
editing8
art history7

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom77
Genoa, Italy13
Croagnes, France8
Woodbridge, United Kingdom5
Leeds, United Kingdom3
Nice, France3
Ancona, Italy1
Cambridge, United Kingdom1
Edinburgh, United Kingdom1
Florence, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria8
Hunt, James Henry Leigh7
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden4
Unwin, Thomas Fisher4
Littleton, Augustus3
A.C. Armstrong and Son2
Gigliucci, Giovanni2
Gigliucci, Valeria2
Holsworth, G.2
Bickers and Son (Publishers)1

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From 180041
From 190092
From 20001

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189938
Up to 199990
Up to latest6

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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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Letter from David Herbert to Jane de Sausmarez

1 Jun 1970

Typewritten letter from the Publishing Director of Studio Vista Limited to Jane de Sausmarez, advising her on how to request a higher fee for her late husband Maurice de Sausmarez's work on a book on ...

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Copy of a letter from (Mary) Sabilla Novello to Mrs Fields

May 1899

Copy of a letter from (Mary) Sabilla Novello to Mrs Fields dated May 1899, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. It concerns the manuscript of the memoir by her German maternal grandfather, Simon ...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Gowing, Richard

3 Mar 1876-11 May 1876

Two handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Richard Gowing, noting her husband Charles Cowden Clarke's ill health and that they had sent a section of manuscript for their 'Recollections of Writ...

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Nicolete Gray to Maurice de Sausmarez

19 Mar 1969

Handwritten letter from the scholar of art and lettering Nicolete Gray to Maurice de Sausmarez, discussing her memoir of Helen Sutherland and role as an early patron of Ben Nicholson and offering to h...

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Alex Gregory-Hood to Maurice de Sausmarez

27 Aug 1969

Typewritten letter from Alex Gregory-Hood, Director of the Rowan Gallery, to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking him for his letter of 21 August and listing the status of five illustrations for de Sausmare...

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David Herbert to Maurice de Sausmarez

Jun 1967

Three typewritten letters from David Herbert, Publishing Director of Studio Vista Limited, to Maurice de Sausmarez. The first letter of 9 June 1967 asks de Sausmarez to look over an attached list of i...

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Edwin J. Embleton to Maurice de Sausmarez

1947-1949

Three typewritten letters from Edwin J. Embleton of Odhams Press Ltd. to Maurice de Sausmarez and one handwritten postcard in Maurice de Sausmarez's hand. The letters concern designs for the St Cecili...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Unwin, Thomas Fisher

1896-1897

Handwritten draft copies of letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin, with a handwritten list of letters in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand. The letters contain references to Cowden ...

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

3 Nov 1866

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, accepting an article for his journal All the Year Round. Dickens notes that the letter is written in haste and gives his reasons. He goes...

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The Craft of Teaching Drawing by Barbara Houlberg

22 Dec 1976

'The Craft of Teaching Drawing: A Working Manual for Drawing Teachers' by Barbara Houlberg, presented to Maurice de Sausmarez by the author, with an enclosed letter sent by the author to de Sausmarez ...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

1822-1835

Nine handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, dated 2 March 1822 to [21 Nov 1835] with four undated. The letters contain social arrangements, dicuss his poetry and ill hea...

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