Item 32 - Letter from George Edward Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway, to Robert Pemberton Milnes and Henrietta Maria Milnes

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HOUG/B/O/2/32

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Letter from George Edward Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway, to Robert Pemberton Milnes and Henrietta Maria Milnes

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  • 8 Sept. 1841 (Creation)

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Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician
(1809-1885)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Spa, addressed to Milnes at Boulogne sur Mer, France. - Has won 'a beautiful spa box' in a lottery at a park today; 'the painting on it is certainly very pretty', but it is so big he is unsure how they are to get it home. That is the only gambling he has done: he 'showed H[arriette, his wife] the Roulette & Brage & Nine hand [?] going on at the Ridoutt [casino], but she thought it very stupid work'; a gentleman suggested that if she were to 'put some of her pin money down, she would think differently'. Thinks they 'play very low, & indeed very little sums'. The play at Baden is said to have been 'very great this year' and 'young Baron Suffield' has gone home 'with his pockets even emptier than usual'.

They think it right that Brooke Richmond has taken Milnes 'under his wing' at Boulogne. Discussion of future plans, political and diplomatic news etc.

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