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Reference code
HOUG/D/A/9/39
Title
Letter from [Assermann?] to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- [after May 1873] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2 ff.
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Scope and content
25 Westmoreland Place, Bayswater. - Has been commissioned to write a piece for the Londoner Zeitung on Gounod's musical setting of Ilala; asks Houghton to explain certain phrases: does not understand how fame can be made into a roof or fret at anything.