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HOUG/D/C/3/6/12
Title
Letter from James Edward Langley to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 15 Feb. 1857 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Scope and content
Queen's Road, Nottingham. - Wishes to progress beyond present rank of Supervisor in the Inland Revenue; struggling to support wife and seven children; has hopes for his eldest son Charles Edward but needs financial assistance until it is secured; agrees with Milnes's remarks in The Times on convict discipline; wishes he had leisure to indulge literary pursuits.