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HOUG/D/C/3/2/7
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Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 4 May [1845?] (Creation)
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3 ff.
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Cowes. - Ill health; returning to Pimlico shortly; previous Government allowed [David] Booth £100 but Sir Robert Peel has mistakenly granted only £50. £40 from Literary Fund gives some ease but will soon run out; will Milnes seek early payment of deficit from Peel. Dickens, Blewitt and others secured original sum from Melbourne.
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- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) writer (Subject)
- Booth, David, (1766-1846), lexicographer (Subject)
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Royal Literary Fund (Subject)
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), novelist and journalist (Subject)
- Blewitt, John Octavian (1810-1984), writer and literary administrator (Subject)
- Lamb, William (1779–1848) second Viscount Melbourne, prime minister (Subject)