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HOUG/D/C/3/9/10
Title
Letter from E. Smith to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 22 Mar. 1842 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Scope and content
21 Chatham Place, Pitt Street, Old Kent Road. - Is living with daughter in penury through unemployment and ill health; small sum would ease suffering; quotes editor of The Monthly Magazine in praise of his verse in Jul. 1825; appends transcripts of sonnets published there and in the London Magazine. Postscript: has served as amanuensis and assistant to 'a deceased eminent literary character' for seven years; also has testimonials from the publisher Sir Richard Phillips.