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HOUG/EM/4/32
Title
Letter from Augustus Craven to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 24 Jul. 1848 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Baden. - Has applied for Francis Molyneux's vacant post at Frankfurt; it is not a promotion but ideally suited to writer's talents; would Milnes put in a good word with Lord P[almerston]; saw 'the Vicar of the Empire make his public entry' at Frankfurt; 'your friends the G-s [Germans?] are shewing "scant well" in general. I still have great misgivings as to their Unity, but shall be perfectly satisfied if the split does not turn out to be too favorable to their Western neighbours'; liberals are inclined to be illiberal to others.