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HOUG/D/A/9/33
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Letter from Henry Thomas Liddell, Baron Ravensworth, to Lord Houghton
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- 25 Dec. 1864 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Ravensworth Castle. - Thanks for Scutari stanzas and Introductory Address [to Edinburgh Philosophical Institution]; encloses ballad for Houghton's son and own 'Canzonet to Water'; admires Houghton's poetry without a philosophical analysis of the poetic faculty. Enjoyed Houghton's pun on Disraeli; once addressed Mrs Disraeli as a 'Dizzy-Pated Woman'.
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- Liddell, Henry Thomas (1797-1878), 1st Earl of Ravensworth, politician (Subject)
- Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe- (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, politician (Subject)
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman (Subject)
- Disraeli, Mary Anne (1792-1872), née Evans, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (Subject)