Identificatie
referentie code
HOUG/D/C/3/6/14
Titel
Letter from Henry Frank Lott to Richard Monckton Milnes
Datum(s)
- Mar. 1883 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
6 ff.
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
On printed notepaper for 25 College Hill, London, E.C. - Encloses letter Houghton sent 44 years ago; started bookshop on proceeds from sonnets published in 1850 but now struggling; requests a few pounds; was originally a joiner; familiar with beautiful work at Crewe Hall.
Enclosed, letter from Milnes to Lott, 9 May [1839], House of Commons. - Lott's verses graceful; regrets he has no influence to secure him a position and doubts whether a literary one would prove beneficial - 'I would rather see poetry acting as a comfort & sustainer to you in your path of life than the inciter to worldly ambition'; poetical sympathy is rare in society - 'we none of us can quite reconcile the daily duties of existence with our wishes & ideas'.