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HOUG/E/M/13/26
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Letter from Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason to Lady Mary Augusta Fox, Baroness Holland
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- 21 Jul. 1871 (Creation)
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4 ff.
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Hotel Bedford, Rue de L'Arcade, Paris. - Career in France as correspondent on the Daily Telegraph since receiving Lady Holland's letter of introduction to Lord Lyons; needs a 'protector' to secure permanent appointment in Paris; suggests Lord Houghton, whom he met when English tutor to Miss Fox. Lord Rosebery has also observed his fitness for the work. Acquaintance with Embassy staff and prominent French families. Lady Holland's approval expressed through Lord Houghton would carry great weight with Edward Levy. Lord William Hay can also testify to his abilities.
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- Meason, Malcolm Ronald Laing (c 1820-1889), army officer, writer and journalist (Subject)
- Fox, Lady Mary Augusta (1812-1889), née Coventry, wife of Henry Edward Fox, 4th Baron Holland (Subject)
- Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell (1817-1887), Earl Lyons, diplomatist (Subject)
- Primrose, Archibald Philip (1847-1929) 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman (Subject)
- Lawson, Edward Levy- (1833-1916), 1st Baron Burnham, newspaper proprietor (Subject)
- Hay, William Montagu (1826-1911), 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, politician (Subject)