Item 27 - Letter from John Brown to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/D/A/7/27

Title

Letter from John Brown to Lord Houghton

Date(s)

  • 4 Jun. 1873 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

3 ff.

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Scope and content

On embossed notepaper, '23 Rutland Street, Edinburgh'. - Fine sketch of the 'noble savage' [Landor]; its superiority to Forster's 'big and bumptious book'; glad Forster has been chastised in Temple Bar for his biography of Dickens. Houghton's movingread more

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