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HOUG/EM/4/16
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Letter from Clarissa Hester Cattermole to Lord Houghton
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- 12 Sept. 1871 (Creation)
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32 Osborne Terrace, Clapham Road. - Is the widow of the illustrator George Cattermole; encloses letter to Gladstone seeking pension [no longer present]; has no friend since the death of Dickens; Lord Lytton does not support the present Government and Mr [Henry Austen?] Layard is at Munich; offers to send original unsuccessful pension drawn up by Dickens; Mrs Thomas the artist's widow received a pension at the time. Postscript: original petition signed by artists and writers was intended for Disraeli; a copy was sent to Gladstone in January 1869 after Disraeli left office.
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- Cattermole, Clarissa Hester (1812-1892), née Elderton, wife of George Cattermole (Subject)
- Cattermole, George (1800-1868), watercolour painter and illustrator (Subject)
- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), Prime Minister and author (Subject)
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), novelist and journalist (Subject)
- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer- (1803-1873), 1st Baron Lytton, writer and politician (Subject)
- Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894), knight, archaeologist and politician (Subject)
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman (Subject)