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HOUG/D/C/3/5/1 · Item · 3 Apr. 1876
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Barr Cottage, Bishop's Hull, Taunton, Somersetshire. - Was granted £20 by the Royal Literary Fund four years ago; now approaching 77 and less able to support herself though still writing; lost £3000 fortune long ago through deaths of five brothers; brought up her orphaned nephew Joseph Hawkey who has just died in India; seeks Royal Literary Society support.

HOUG/D/C/3/10/10 · Item · 15 Jun. 1848
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

6 Alfred Place, Blackfriars. - Knows the Howitts, W. S. Landor, Macready and Freiligrath; has no means to support his invalid wife, though has been helped by Disraeli and Peel; gave up tutorship in classics last year to edit a 'new London Weekly Newspaper' which made him ill with over-work and failed; is ineligible for Literary Fund aid as he has not yet published anything independently; poems contributed to Howitt's Journal have been published in America but are delayed here owing to depression of the times; will resume teaching but needs funds; encloses letters [return requested]. Mr Howitt has been ruined by a literary speculation.

HOUG/D/C/3/9/14 · Item · 31 Jan. 1873
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Vernon House, Ventnor, Isle of Wight. - Writes on advice of Lord Clanricarde, a family friend; has small annuity but must otherwise support consumptive son by writing; will Houghton assist her application to the Literary Fund? Has received £200 from the Fund over 22 years; describes her literary output; was first encouraged by 'The great genius whom the Nation mourns' but latterly he felt his differences with the Fund would harm her interests; lost a great friend in Robert Bell; was born to affluence but has suffered through an imprudent marriage; 'but for the Muses [I] must long since have perished of grief and want'.

HOUG/D/C/3/3/16 · Item · 11 Feb. 1856
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Forest, Walthamstow. - Appeared before New Zealand Committee in 1844; New Zealand Company subsequently deprived him of shipping business; supported himself by writing on Colonial subjects; has edited Indian, New Zealand, and Australian papers but sudden redundancy has forced him to apply to the Literary Fund for aid; literary employment disorganised by the war; has Cambridge University education.

HOUG/D/C/3/8/17 · Item · 19 Aug. 1861
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

42 Queen's Road, Finchley Road, N.W. - Has published a number of works anonymously; excessive literary toil caused her to break down last spring; poverty was temporarily averted by a Literary Fund grant; now convalescent but unable to work with same intensity. Asks if Milnes will sign her Memorial to Lord Palmerston seeking a grant from the Literary Civil List; Dickens has signed; Thackeray and perhaps Disraeli will do so; Earl Russell only prevented from signing by official etiquette. Appends list of her novels and plays.

HOUG/D/C/3/2/2 · Item · 30 Oct. 1877
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

405 Sauciehall Street, Glasgow. - Has been obliged to resign from newspaper owing to effect of night work on health; his wife also ill; cannot find literary employment at present; names publications in support of request for Literary Fund grant; Houghton contributed to his edition of poems; has recommendation of Earl of Glasgow.

Enclosing printed notice given critics’ opinions of publications by Davenport Adams, Aug. 1876.

Add. MS c/57/39-39a · Item · 1, 16 Dec. 1899
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

29 Delamere Terrace, Westbourne Square, W. - The first letter dated 1 Dec. 1899 lets Frazer know the Royal Literary Fund would like to support his work, and the letter of 16 Dec. identifies his 'fellow-conspirator' in putting forward his name is George Darwin.

Add. MS c/57/41-42 · Item · Sept.-Oct. 1904
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Aix-les-Thermes, Ariège and 17 Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. - In the first letter dated 17 Sept. 1904 he tells Frazer he is writing A. Ll. Roberts, secretary of the Royal Literary Fund; is sorry to hear of his financial difficulty, is sorry Cambridge has not done more for him. In the letter of 18 Oct. 1904 he assures Frazer he is working on a solution.

HOUG/D/C/3/3/6 · Item · 21 Jan. 1874
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Farm Lodge, Petersham, Surrey. - Requests permission to reprint Strafford letters in a biography; seeks literary employment or a teaching post; worn out by caring for her insane brother; has had two grants from the Literary Fund and medical treatment from David Gray's friend Dr. Lane of Sudbrook Park; now needs work to finance research.

HOUG/D/C/3/7/6 · Item · 8 Dec. 1872
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

6 Mona Terrace, Douglas, Isle of Man. - Sends recent works by request of Mrs Metcalfe of Ferrybridge; discusses his previous works and those of Houghton; has been a journalist for forty years but cannot expect a Literary Fund Pension from Gladstone owing to Conservative sympathies; can Houghton help; names titled relatives; also wishes to dispose of copyright or otherwise obtain income from publication.