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HOUG/D/D/2/6
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Letter from John Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, to Lord Houghton
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- 25 Mar. [1874?] (Creation)
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2 ff.
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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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- Sinclair, John (1797-1875), Archdeacon of Middlesex (Subject)
- Sinclair, Diana (1769-1845), née Macdonald, wife of Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (Subject)
- Boswell, James (1740-1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson (Subject)
- Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784), author and lexicographer (Subject)