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HOUG/DC/3/10/10
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Letter from Edward Youl to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 15 Jun. 1848 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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6 Alfred Place, Blackfriars. - Knows the Howitts, W. S. Landor, Macready and Freiligrath; has no means to support his invalid wife, though has been helped by Disraeli and Peel; gave up tutorship in classics last year to edit a 'new London Weekly Newspaper' which made him ill with over-work and failed; is ineligible for Literary Fund aid as he has not yet published anything independently; poems contributed to Howitt's Journal have been published in America but are delayed here owing to depression of the times; will resume teaching but needs funds; encloses letters [return requested]. Mr Howitt has been ruined by a literary speculation.
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- Youl. Edward (fl 1840s), journalist and swindler (Subject)
- Howitt, Mary (1799-1888), née Botham, poet (Subject)
- Howitt, William (1792-1879), writer (Subject)
- Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) author (Subject)
- Freiligrath, Ferdinand (1810-1876), poet and translator (Subject)
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman (Subject)
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Royal Literary Fund (Subject)
- Howitt's Journal of Literature and Popular Progress (Subject)