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Total number of records: 351

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives197
Books and printed items152
Objects2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection208
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection192
English Literature48
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
poetry351
family45
letter writing42
gift giving37
transcription33
writing23
literature21
emotions18
music16
painting16

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy76
London, United Kingdom25
Nice, France4
Baden-Baden, Germany3
Florence, Italy3
Richmond, United Kingdom2
Cannes, France2
Karlsruhe, Germany2
Enfield, Middlesex2
Worthing, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Aristotle47
Horace45
Metastasio, Pietro (1698-1782)40
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)25
Juvenal16
Bouterwek, Friedrich (1766-1828)11
Dubos, Jean Baptiste (1670-1742)11
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria9
Cowden Clarke, Charles8
Virgil7

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Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/15
1852-1866
Sonnet titled ‘Sonnifero!’ by Giovanni Gigliucci and a photographic reproduction of a portrait of him as a child.
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/16
1852-1873
A poem transcribed by Porzia Gigliucci and photographic portraits of her as a child and later as an adult, dressed as Thalia from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/18
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 ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/4
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, ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/5
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...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/6
1843-1877
Two poems by Thomas James Serle, the husband of Cecilia Novello.
Archive Sub-series:
BC MS NCC/19/12
1739-1882
Handwritten and printed poetry by writers associated with the Novello, Cowden Clarke and Gigliucci families, with some examples of poetry written by both Mary Cowden Clarke and her husband Charles Cow...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/024
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...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/036
1867-1868
Two handwritten draft letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to William Henry Wills, the first dated 17 March 1867 thanks Wills for the cheque for five guineas and communicates that any further payments can ...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/043
1870-1872
Two handwritten letters from the poet and editor John Watson Dalby to Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 27 August 1870 and 19 February 1872. The former describes the ill health of Ralph (likely the husband...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/083
1814-1856
34 handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, beginning with his imprisonment at Surrey Jail from 1813 to 1815 and going on to contain references to publications and events...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/085
1852-1858
Five handwritten letters from the poet Leigh Hunt to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke dating from 9 December [1852?] to 4 February [1858]. The letter dated 9 December [1852?] is a copy in Mary Cowden Cl...