Item 10 - Letter from Edward Youl to Richard Monckton Milnes

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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.