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HOUG/HA/24
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Letter from Henry Reeve to [Sir James William Colvile]
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- 26 Oct. [1874] (Creation)
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Embossed notepaper, Privy Council Office. - It is a 'very curious thing that Dr Dechannel should report thus, if poor T[wistleton] really committed suicide. He heard the story from Lady Minto, who 'had the details from Lady Elizabeth Romilly', but everyone he has seen in town 'such as Lacaita, [Abraham?] Hayward etc believed in the fact of the suicide'. Is just back from Christchuch where his work is going on well'; did not buy the roan mare. Encloses note from Montagu Smith [no longer present].
Letter incomplete.
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- Reeve, Henry (1813–1895) translator and magazine editor (Subject)
- Colvile, Sir James William (1810-1880), judge in India (Subject)
- Twisleton, Edward Turner Boyd (1809–1874) civil servant (Subject)
- Kynynmound, Emma Eleanor Elizabeth Elliot-Murray- (1824-1892), née Hislop, wife of William, 3rd Earl of Minto (Subject)
- Romilly, Lady Elizabeth Amelia Jane (1820-1890), née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, wife of Lieut.-Col. Frederick Romilly (Subject)
- Lacaita, Sir James Philip (1813-1895), knight, scholar and politician (Subject)
- Hayward, Abraham (1801-1884), essayist and translator (Subject)