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HOUG/D/A/7/17
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Letter from Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, to Lord Houghton
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- 11 May 1873 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Holwood, Beckenham. - Declines invitation for next Sunday. Houghton's skilful presentation of his Monograph subjects. Most recent biographies recall [Sir James?] Mackintosh's paradox 'that a good memoir is one that ought never to have been written'.