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HOUG/D/A/7/27
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Letter from John Brown to Lord Houghton
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- 4 Jun. 1873 (Creation)
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3 ff.
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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 moving sketch of Heine. Is sending a book, a 'curious record of Scottish character' and a drollity of Sir Walter [Scott's] friend Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe' which is 'quite Rabelaisian'.
Enclosed: photograph of sketch by C. K. Sharpe of 'A Sucking Seal Exhibited at Dalkeith June 1839', annotated by Brown.
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- Sotheby, Hans William (1827-1874), barrister (Subject)
- Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) author (Subject)
- Forster, John (1812-1876), writer and literary adviser (Subject)
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), novelist and journalist (Subject)
- Heine, Christian Johann Heinrich (1797-1856), German poet (Subject)
- Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832), 1st Baronet, poet and novelist (Subject)
- Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick (1781-1851), antiquary and collector (Subject)