Item 8 - Letter from John William King to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/A/B/9/8

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Letter from John William King to Lord Houghton

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  • 19 Jan. 1870 (Creation)

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Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician
(1809-1885)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Ashby de la Launde, near Sleaford. - Re shooting in Houghton's part of Martin Wood, Timberland; has 'collected the Tribute by my own gun, with some in addition for my own larder'. The birds are 'not as fat as usual'; asks that they be kept separate from the others in Houghton's larder: it is usual now to feed pheasants on 'Indian Corn - which causes the flesh to be dry and insipid - & the flesh is yellow - & soon rancid. Whereas these birds have been fed on Barley and Pease'.

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