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HOUG/D/C/3/2/8
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Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 23 Aug. [1845] (Creation)
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4 ff.
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Mrs Booth sends enclosed proofs of Lord Melbourne’s intended payment [to David Booth]; Peel believed he was matching the figure as Mr Booth’s son only asked for £50. Quotes Mrs Booth on interest of Milnes and his father in her husband’s work. The Booths are penniless.
Requests return of enclosed document: letter from Francis, Lord Jeffrey [written in 3rd person] to Mr Place, 8 Hinde Street. - encloses Lord Melbourne’s answer to Memorial of David Booth; more funds may be needed in future [2 ff.]
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- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) writer (Subject)
- Booth, Isabella (1795-1863), née Baxter, wife of David Booth (Subject)
- Lamb, William (1779–1848) second Viscount Melbourne, prime minister (Subject)
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Milnes, Robert Pemberton (1784-1858), landowner and politician (Subject)
- Jeffrey, Francis (1773-1850) Lord Jeffrey, judge and literary critic (Subject)
- Booth, David, (1766-1846), lexicographer (Subject)