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HOUG/A/A/3/2 · Item · 8 Oct. [1829]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Hodsock Priory. - Introducing two 'intimate friends of [her son] William's', just going to Trinity: [Francis] Garden and [Robert] Monteith; wishes Milnes to introduce them to 'literary society, steering them clear of the Infidels and Lunatics with which evil report says your learned University abounds'. Has been reading some of Milnes' poetry. Postscript: France is 'sustaining and beautifying'; Milnes will be 'more in love with it than ever'. Concerns about Milan as a winter base for Milnes' mother, because of the fogs and cold winds.

HOUG/B/N/3/29 · Part · [15? Jan. 1858]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

On headed notepaper for Carstairs House, Lanark. - Although Milnes 'did not even acknowledge receipt' of his own last letter, he must write again for himself and Mina [his wife] to congratulate him on the birth of his son, which Monteith sees announced in the newspapers this morning. Thinks the boy 'will be something - at any rate very pensant', and hopes he will add to his parents' happiness.

HOUG/A/A/3/7 · Item · [early 1830?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Signed by: Stafford Augustus O'Brien; Hon. Henry Arundell; Jacob Henry Preston; Edward Ellice; Augustus Fitzroy; Edward Herbert Bunbury; George Vernon Colebrooke; Ernest C. A. Bruce [?]; John Bowes Bowes; Crofton Vandeleur; H[enry Brydges?] Clarke; E[liot] B[artholomew] G[eorge] Warburton; Rob[er]t Blane; Henry Moore; Robert Monteith; Arthur Hallam; John M[itchell] Kemple; Ch[arles] L. Kirwan.