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HOUG/D/A/3/1 · Item · [c 1840]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Is sending her book in return for Milnes' superior one. Her maids were shocked by 'The Brownie': 'They evidently took it as an obscure & vague calumny on the race of housemaids generally'. The Songs are proper ones and should be set to music. ''The Northern Knight in Italy is bad for young men - I mean to cut it out of the copy belonging to your Dedicatee [the Hon. Sidney Herbert]. Milnes' beautiful compression of ideas is in Rogers' style. Milnes and Fonblanque have cut her this Spring. No signature: adds illustration of a hanged man, 'Fate of those who attend yr parties & wear black crape masks'.

HOUG/E/M/17/14 · Item · [3] May 1850
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

4 Market Alley, Gravesend. - Reduced to poverty; deserted from trading ship in 1816 and amassed £200 by 1827; returned home and started mother and sister in a confectionery business; own business as part owner of a ship and dealer in tallow, coal and bones subsequently failed; now forced to live among depraved drunkards; fears for moral welfare of his children; seeks funds to emigrate; would be an asset during passage; 'I might become a scololmaster...'. Cites Messrs Ogilby, Moore & Co. as referees in London. Postscript: pledged teetotaller via Father Mathew; has also written to Hon. Sidney Herbert.

HOUG/E/M/13/47 · Item · 7 May [1861?]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Dundalk. - Will Milnes mention him to Lord Herbert for the Medjidie Order of Turkey; sent details last December; Lord Galway's lucky escape; Welfitt had a bad fall; Sir George Brown plans to assemble army on the Curragh; hopes it will be more suitable for dragoons than aquatic birds; no trouble recently, but there may be if the flag is not permitted to fly on Londonderry Cathedral on 12th July.