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Lock of Mozart's hair
1829
A lock of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's hair, tied with red string. Vincent and Mary Novello visited Mozart's widow Constanze in Salzburg, Vienna, as part of their travels across Europe in 18...
Nightingale, Florence to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria
10 Apr 1866
Handwritten letter from Florence Nightingale to Mary Cowden Clarke, written on mourning paper. Nightingale notes that the delay to her letter was the result of ill health all winter. She mentions her ...
Locks of hair
1842-1908
Locks of hair belonging to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in a paper envelope inscribed in ink, with a pencil portrait in profile by either his wife Clara Anastasia Novello or sister-in-law Emma Aloysia ...
Case for Mozart's hair
c. 1829
A circular glass case backed with paper, inscribed with Mozart's name in ink and sealed with gold foil paper.
Lock of Mozart's son's hair
1829
A lock of hair in folded paper inscribed with 'Cheveu de mon Fils Wolfgang Mozart ano 1829', likely to have been written by his mother, Mozart's widow Constanze. Their son and youngest child, Franz Xa...
Lock of Beethoven's hair and portrait
1824
A lithographic print of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, published in Vienna in 1824, attached to which is a lock of Beethoven's hair. It was gifted to Vincent Novello by their mutal friend, the har...