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HOUG/E/M/17/14
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Letter from Edward Roche to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- [3] May 1850 (Creación)
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2 ff.
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4 Market Alley, Gravesend. - Reduced to poverty; deserted from trading ship in 1816 and amassed £200 by 1827; returned home and started mother and sister in a confectionery business; own business as part owner of a ship and dealer in tallow, coal and bones subsequently failed; now forced to live among depraved drunkards; fears for moral welfare of his children; seeks funds to emigrate; would be an asset during passage; 'I might become a scololmaster...'. Cites Messrs Ogilby, Moore & Co. as referees in London. Postscript: pledged teetotaller via Father Mathew; has also written to Hon. Sidney Herbert.