Item 12 - Letter from Frederick Lake to Mary Lake

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.

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.