Item 116 - Letter from Catherine Maria Vaughan to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/26/116

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Letter from Catherine Maria Vaughan to Lord Houghton

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  • 20 Jan. [1876] (Creation)

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The Temple, E. C. - Mary Lake is engaged to be married to the son of a gentleman farmer near Driffield, named Topham; encloses portrait [no longer present]. His father, 'enraged at his marrying beneath himself - has expelled him from the farm he was to have occupied'. Asks if Houghton can do anything to help.

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      HOUG/EM/12/1: Letter, 5 Feb. 1859, from Mary Lake to Richard Monckton Milnes, asking for a letter of recommendation for the position of a nurse at Greenwich College; her husband Frederick is dead.
      HOUG/HA/12: Letter, 15 Mar. 1844, from Frederick Lake to his wife Mary
      HOUG/HA/13: Letter, 12 Apr. 1862, from young Mary Lake to her mother.

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