Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/D/E/3/2/2
Title
Letter from Joseph Hunter to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 10 May 1854 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
2 ff.
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Repository
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
30 Torrington Square. - Believes Milnes' Shaw manuscript to be autograph; would like to understand more about the Earl of Strafford's marriage. Asks the provenance of Milnes' collection; some letters were once in the Museum of Thoresby of Leeds and have been published in the Biographica Britannica; gives further biographical details of the Countess; autograph buyers should beware counterfeits; his 'enlarged account of Scrooby' [Collections Concerning the Church or Congregation of Protestant Separatists formed at Scrooby, the Founders of New Plymouth...] now ready for printing.