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Total number of records: 112

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection112
Brotherton Collection63

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
gift giving112
letter writing51
poetry37
family34
drawing17
transcription16
writing13
literature8
books8
painting6

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy26
London, United Kingdom25
Nice, France4
Manchester, United Kingdom3
Rome, Italy3
York, United Kingdom2
Bruges, Belgium2
Maidenhead, United Kingdom2
Exeter, United Kingdom2
Edinburgh, United Kingdom2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria14
Cowden Clarke, Charles9
Hunt, James Henry Leigh3
Novello, Mary Sabilla2
Novello, Vincent2
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden2
Novello, Joseph Alfred1
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)1
Mozley, Edith (Later Countess Gigliucci)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 1800111

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

1825-1898

Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...

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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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Christie, Alexander to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1848-1851

Handwritten letters and ink sketches from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke.

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Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Hunt, James Henry Leigh

1832-1856

Three handwritten letters from Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke to the poet Leigh Hunt, one in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand. The letter thanks Hunt for the gift of books and fondly recalls the circumstance...

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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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Coleridge, Sir John Duke, Baron Coleridge to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1879

Two handwritten letters on mourning paper from Sir John Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief justice of England, to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing his book for her, noting that there are only 75 copies and menti...

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Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1840-1856

Fifteen handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, dating from 20 February 1840 to 14 October [1856], with ten undated. The letter of 2 October 1856 is a copy in Mary Cowden C...

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Gifts

c. 1825

Copies in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s hand of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poems, bound in a copy of ‘Posthumous poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley’ (1824).

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Albums

c. 1831

Autograph album belonging to Emma Aloysia Novello, with contributions from her mother Mary Sabilla Novello, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke and others.

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Gifts

1838

Imitation inlaid stone panel, painted on wood possibly over gesso, painted for Clara Novello by Rev. Pigno of the Spanish Place Chapel, London.

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Poetry

1869-1893

Three poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci, two for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and one for her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke.

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