Item 2 - Letter from Ferdinand Freiligrath to Richard Monckton Milnes

3 ff.

Clapton Pond, Clapton (at Mrs Leigh's). - Milnes knows his circumstances from Mrs Howitt and Mr Chorley; as a political refugee did not wish to depend on writing but on commercial clerical work; came from Zurich separately from his family, avoiding German territory; sold his library; arrived to find promised situation was taken. Asks if Milnes can help him to a secretaryship or library post until a business one offers; does not feel a literary subscription is justified as his need is temporary, but a loan would be acceptable; thanks for translation of his 'Old Frederick in Heaven', and sends a volume containing translation of Milnes' 'Venetian Serenade' in return.