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11 Nov. 1833 [postmark]
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Postmarked Maddox Street, addressed to Mrs N. Longman, Garden Mount, Hampstead. - Submits a humorous plan of a dinner of insects and bugs - 'Cock Chafer Soup', 'Stewed Slugs' etc - which he thinks will be agreeable to ‘Kirby & Spence’ [the authors of An Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols., 1815–26, which was published by Longmans.