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HOUG/A/D/1/6/2
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Letter from John Fergusson McLennan to Lord Houghton
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- 2 Apr. 1873 (Production)
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1 folded sheet.
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Savile Club, 15, Savile Row, W. - McLennan's friend Lionel Robinson, hon. secretary of the Century Club, has asked him to write a note to Houghton in favour of Robinson as secretary of the Cobden Club, of which Houghton is a member of the Committee. Robinson is a 'good man of business' with a position in the Audit Office; he is a trained journalist and occasionally writes for papers such as the Saturday Review; his language skills.
McLennan leads 'a life of continual plodding now at official hod-work - drawing Bills and revising statutes'; does not feel in the best place for 'working out my literary projects', but has them 'always in view however', and is making slow progress. Hopes Houghton and his wife are well.