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HOUG/D/E/3/17/6
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Letter from Elizabeth Phebe Bright to Lord Houghton
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- 24 Jun. 1884 (Creation)
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2 ff., with enclosure, 1 fragment.
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Ashfield. - Encloses list of manuscripts collected by her father; he particularly valued a MS volume of writings by American authors; it was exchanged with Mr Fields of Boston for Mayall's photograph of Hawthorne, of which only one impression was taken of the time; does not know of items relating to American independence but most of the Presidents were represented, though Mr Randolph Robinson did not quite succeed in filling all the gaps; her father also had some interesting stamps. [Letter incomplete: end missing].
Enclosure: 'MSS at Ashfield' [incomplete list by Elizabeth Bright, end missing. 1884?].
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- Merivale, Elizabeth Phebe (1863-1943), daughter of Henry Arthur Bright, wife of Charles Merivale (Subject)
- Bright, Henry Arthur (1830-1884), author and merchant (Subject)
- Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881), publisher, writer, and lecturer (Subject)
- Mayall, John Jabez Edwin (1813-1901), photographer and local politician (Subject)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) author (Subject)