Item 6 - Letter from John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, to Lord Houghton

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Reference code

HOUG/D/D/2/6

Title

Letter from John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, to Lord Houghton

Date(s)

  • 25 Mar. [1874?] (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

2 ff.

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Scope and content

Embossed notepaper, 'The Vicarage, Kensington'. - Interested by Houghton's remarks on Boswell; Sinclair's mother knew him, and believed his fame to be unjustly eclipsed by that of Johnson, which Boswell had enhanced.

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