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- 24 Jan. 1859 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Menagerie Cottage, Nostell. - Mr [Edward?] Whately offered him the schoolmastership for which Milnes supplied a testimonial; was very kindly received in Ireland but discovered that half the salary must come from private tuition and rents are high as Bray has become a fashionable bathing place; has decided not to accept post but must support family; conscious of Miss [Esther?] Winn's generosity but feels degraded by present circumstances; can Milnes advise him about writing for magazines; lacks self-esteem. 'Throughout my whole life I have been held face downwards in the mud so tightly that I am afraid of losing all resistive energy, and regarding the mud as my natural element. Still reading Hugh Miller's Vestiges. Reform question; proposes extension of franchise based upon tested knowledge of biology, natural theology, and moral issues.
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- Maudslay, Amos (1817-1865), cobbler, chartist and poet (Subject)
- Whately, Edward William (1823-1892), Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (Subject)
- Cerjat, Esther Louisa de (1824-1904), née Winn, wife of Rev. Henry Sigismund de Cerjat (Subject)
- Miller, Hugh (1802-1856), geologist, evangelical journalist, and writer (Subject)