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HOUG/D/C/3/4/1 · Item · 28 Aug. [1846?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Clapton. - Thanks Milnes for his interest in [Ferdinand Freiligrath]; some City businesses would gladly employ him despite his poor standing with foreign governments, but there are no vacancies at present. Freiligrath will not yet accept a loan: he isread more

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 Weeklyread more

HOUG/D/C/3/3/12 · Item · [mid 1840s?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

'Saturday morning', 11 Grey Coat Street, Westminster. - Is in depths of poverty; his book has been held back; he is owned £9 by a newspaper; needs £2 to take up offer to edit a paper in Somerset; could not meet Milnes or Freiligrath owing to seedy attire;read more

HOUG/D/C/3/4/2 · Item · 7 Sept. 1846
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Clapton Pond, Clapton (at Mrs Leigh's). - Milnes knows his circumstances from Mrs Howitt and Mr Chorley; as a political refugee did not wish to depend on writing but on commercial clerical work; came from Zurich separately from his family, avoidingread more

HOUG/D/C/3/4/2A · Item · 22 Dec. [mid 1840s?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

7 Devonport Street, Hyde Park. - Returned from the Continent to find that Ferdinand Freiligrath had lost his job on her account; he was upset by reading disparaging comments about himself in a German newspaper, and she is to blame; would like to makeread more