Item 5 - Letter from Mary Frances Wilberforce to Lord Houghton

2 docs (2 ff. and 2 ff.)

St Germain en Laye, près Paris. - Encloses statement by her brother-in-law concerning his friend Catharine Heron, who has great literary talent; asks if Houghton can secure her a pension. Enclosed statement by Henry William Wilberforce about Miss Heron's needy circumstances; she is the daughter of a doctor; self-educated teacher, and lived and wrote in Belgium following illness; she is now poor and unwell; has small income from donations collected by a Miss Graham and a £10 pension from the Almonry, but a literary pension would ease her plight.