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HOUG/EM/7/3
Title
Letter from Edward St John Fairman to Lord Houghton
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- 4 Jan. 1869 (Creation)
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1 f.
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On printed notepaper: Fairman & Co., Palazzo Orlandini, 2 Via dei Buoni, Florence. - Houghton's kind acknowledgment from Pisa last year of his Treatise [on the Petroleum Zones of Italy]; has concessions on nearly 22, 000 acres of land but no money to proceed; frustrations of earlier schemes in Egypt; requires Houghton's support; discussed him with Mr Lorrimer Graham [sic: James Lorimer Graham?] of New York; sends copy of English newspaper he has started [no longer present].