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7 Fitzroy Square, (London).—She and her husband are grateful for Mr Milnes’s tribute to Miss Berry (i.e. his poem on her funeral).

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7. Fitzroy Square
Dec[embe]r 2. 1852.

Dear Mrs Milnes

Instead of trusting to the slender chance of finding you at home on occasion of a call I venture to write & tell you how grateful Sir Cha[rle]s & I feel, in company with many others, to Mr Milnes for his most beautiful tribute to the venerated Miss Berry.

He has spoken the language of all our hearts, & I feel convinced that each who knew Miss Berry must feel as if a sweet & sacred duty had been fulfilled for them—& fulfilled exactly as each could wish—& as none other could have done—Pray tell Mr. Milnes this—truly my heart seems lightened by his lines—

Hoping that yourself & your little daughter are well whose christening I was sorry not to be able to congratulate you on I beg to remain

Your’s truly
Eliz. Eastlake

d’Andreis - Wilmot Horton.

9 [?] St James Sq. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Palace Hotel, Edinburgh. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Headed notepaper for 29 Portman Square, W. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Carlton Towers, Selby (on headed notepaper with monogram and coronet). - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Wakehurst. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton; has been remembering their youth 'when we were much together, & as you say, felt like sisters towards each other'; thanks Houghton for writing to her so that the news did not come from the newspaper.

Headed notepaper for Albury Park, Guildford. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Headed notepaper for Motcombe House, Shaftesbury. - Very kind of Houghton to have thought of her in the moment of his own 'severe grief' [the death of Lady Houghton]; offers her condolences. Is glad that Mrs Blackburne is with the family.

Regrets Lady Houghton is ill; will bring his daughter in her place. [Watermarked 1870]

Crewe Hall, Crewe. - [written in third person]. Pictures should be kept until Mrs Milnes comes to town; would like proof of new print of Archdeacon Hare framed in gold.

Headed notepaper with monogram and coronet. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton

Possibly including letters to Annabella Hungerford Milnes.

Itchen Stoke Rectory, Alresford. - 'Dear Amicia' tells her that Houghton would like a line from her; offers condolences on the death of Lady Houghton

Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Market Place, on official stationery of the Mayor of Pontefract - Notes that at a meeting of the Corporation last night great sympathy was expressed towards Lord Houghton on the death of Lady Houghton, and it was resolved that a letter of condolence should be written; asks when it would be convenient for this to be presented.

Letter of [5 May 1861] addressed to 'Darling Mumsey' written by or with significant assistance from an adult, perhaps Louisa Milnes, from whom a note to Annabella appears on verso. Letter accompanied by a sketch, which perhaps includes the donkey mentioned in the letter.
Telegram in French, 12 Jan. 1868, from Robin Milnes at Paris to his mother at Cannes.

Mentone. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.

Does 'not wonder at your pouring out your feelings to me - about your excellent wife'.

32 Weymouth St., Portland Place, W. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton; notes that her husband admired her, as did Hawthorne and Leigh Hunt.

64 Rue de Lisbonne, Paris. - Condolences on the death of Lady Houghton.