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- Wednesday night [7 Jan. 1852] (Creation)
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1 folded sheet
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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.
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The book containing this letter forms part of the bequest of Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, 2014.
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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, calm and collected', having heard from Mr [Frederick] Glennie, a passenger already rescued who knew him well. His brother's wife and their sister are here at 23 Savile Row, and 'full of hope, the suspence [sic], however, is little less dreadful than the last certainty'. Knows Milnes will sympathize with them in 'the time of bitter trial'.
Pencil number '2' added on first page.
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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.
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- Warburton, George Drought (1816-1857), army officer and writer on Canada (Subject)
- Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician (Subject)
- Warburton, Bartholomew Eliot George (1810-1852), Irish traveller and novelist (Subject)
- Glennie, Charles Frederick (1808-1872), British consul to Mexico (Subject)
- Milman, Matilda Jane (1819-1861), née Grove, wife of Bartholomew Eliot Warburton and Henry Salusbury Milman (Subject)