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HOUG/H/A/12
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Letter from Frederick Lake to Mary Lake
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- 15 Mar. 1844 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet and one slip.
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Written on board H.M.S. Tartarus, off Tarbert, cove of Cork, addressed to Mary Lake at 144 Pread [Praed] Street, Paddington, London. - Received her letter with the money order; thinks she had better go to Woolich [Woolwich] and ask Mr Robinson to direct her to Mr [?] Vening. He is well and hopes she is too; they are just waiting for another ship to come then they are going to Cork.
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HOUG/26/116: Letter, 20 Jan. 1876, from Catherine Maria Vaughan to Lord Houghton, requesting help for Mary Lake (jun.) re her marriage to John William Topham.
HOUG/EM/12/1: Letter, 5 Feb. 1859, from Mary Lake, asking for a letter of recommendation for the position of a nurse at Greenwich College; her husband Frederick is dead.