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HOUG/E/K/4/2
Title
Letter from John Hardy to [?] Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 9 Dec. 1853 (Creation)
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2 ff., autograph signature only.
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Ferrybridge. - David Heald [brother of Benjamin, who in 1849 killed his nephew and niece but was acquitted of murder due to insanity and remained in an asylum for some years] has met Richard Hilton, 'who Worried a man at Hull and was sent to Bethlem Hospital' in 1842 and released in good health after three years. Contains copy letter: Sir Alexander Morison to John Denniston