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HOUG/D/E/3/3/2
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Letter from George Skinner to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 3 Jan. 1861 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Cambridge. - The Philobiblon Society might be interested in family papers considering the General Dury mentioned by Boswell and Johnson; outlines the career of Dury, who was his wife's grandfather; Milnes is welcome to inspect Dury's manuscript account detailing the arrest of Jacobite leaders.
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- Philobiblon Society (Subject)
- Skinner, George (c 1796-1871), theological writer (Subject)
- Dury, Alexander (1704-1758), army officer (Subject)
- Boswell, James (1740-1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson (Subject)
- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), author and lexicographer (Subject)
- Skinner, Lucy Elizabeth Dorothy (1800-1880), née Dury, wife of George Skinner (Subject)