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- Wednesday night [7 Jan. 1852] (Creation)
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1 folded sheet
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Archival history
After Lord Houghton’s death in 1885 his library passed firstly to his son the 1st Marquess of Crewe, then to Peggy, Marchioness of Crewe, and eventually to Lord Crewe’s daughter the Duchess of Roxburghe.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The book containing this letter forms part of the bequest of Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, 2014.
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Scope and content
Junior U[nited] S[ervices] Club - London. - There is still 'reasonable ground of hope' [that his brother Eliot Warburton survived the sinking of of the Amazon in the Bay of Biscay on 4 Jan. 1852]; knows his brother 'was completely dressed on the deck,… read more
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Tipped in between the third and fourth folios following the title page of Eliot Warburton's Darien; or, The Merchant Prince. A Historical Romance. (London : Colburn & Co., 1852), in the Crewe Collection.