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HOUG/E/M/16/1 · Item · 11 May 1871
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

5 York Gate. - His brother Gifford seeks transfer to the consulate at Tripoli as his health is affected by the cold and damp of Trebizond; can Houghton influence Lord Granville or Odo Russell; has sent poems ('stillborn about a fortnight ago') to Fryston; thanks for suggestions; yesterday Frith likened Leighton's Hercules & Death to 'a man struggling with his lay-figure.

TURN III/A/25/27 · Item · 18–22 May 1843
Part of Correspondence of Dawson Turner, Sir Francis Palgrave, and Hudson Gurney

(The verses are ‘Elias in coelum rapitur’ by Walford, dated 3 Mar. 1841 (transcribed 18 May 1843); ‘In obitum condiscipuli’ by Palmer, 26 Feb. 1842 (transcribed 18 May 1843); ‘Somnia’ by Palmer, Id. Apr. 1842 (transcribed 19 May 1843); and ‘A Georgic on Horticulture’ by Walford, 1841 (transcribed 22 May 1843).)