HOUG/EM/9/7
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16 Mar. 1864
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Villiers Cottage, Villiers Road, Bushey, Herts. - Formerly Secretary to the Suburban Village Association; is brother of Mrs [Jane Lindsay] Blackwell; encloses testimonials as he has been searching for an appointment since his return from Canada; was only successful there during the visit of the Prince of Wales; congratulates Houghton on peerage. Postscript: hopes financial distress will not force him to break up home. Enclosures: copy testimonials for Hepburne from the Earl of Carlisle; Samuel John Cooke, Secretary of the Ottoman Railway Co; T. L. Seccombe, India Office; Thomas Page, civil engineer; W. B. Moffatt (architect), with note of loss of other testimonials at sea on leaving Melbourne in 1859.