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Hope, Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Henrietta Beresford (1822-1881), daughter of James Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
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Letter from Robert Whiston to Lord Houghton
HOUG/EM/21/16 · Item · 10 Mar. 1881
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Rochester. - His son [Robert Wilmot Whiston] is reading for the Bar and seeks pupils or work with Records Commission; would have written to Beresford Hope but he is at Biarritz owing to his wife's serious illness; Spedding's sad end; survived his own cab accident through receiving a copious draught of sherry from 'our "Robert" of the Club'; glad Houghton voted for retention of Candahar [sic: Kandahar, Afghanistan]; enjoying horse riding.