Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/D/C/3/5/3
Title
Letter from Anthony Oneal Haye to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 11 Dec. 1865 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
2 ff. plus 1 press cutting.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Edinburgh, 5 South East Circus Place (on notepaper embossed 'Post Office'. - Became private clerk to the Solicitor to the GPO in 1859 when family circumstances forced him to abandon his own legal training; eyesight now threatened by close work; encloses press cutting on his Persecution of the Knights Templar; hopes to obtain an Inspectorship to relieve his sight; in the meantime seeks introduction to London publisher; his completed writings include Scottish tales and a novel set in Rome during the reign of Trajan.