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HOUG/EM/7/2
Title
Letter from Edward St John Fairman to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 4 Mar. 1868 (Creation)
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2 ff., with printed enclosure, 2 ff.
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874 Via Santa Maria, Pisa; sent to Houghton in Rome. - Favourable opinions of his petroleum enterprise; thanks for offer to introduce English investors; will forward his Treatise on the Petroleum Zones of Italy if desired; encloses two poems. Enclosures: two printed poems by Fairman, Never Despair (14 Feb. 1868) and A True Friend (19 Feb. 1868).