Item 3 - Letter from May Noel Hartley to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/E/M/9/3

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Letter from May Noel Hartley to Lord Houghton

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  • 9 Jun. [1885] (Creation)

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2 ff.

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Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician
(1809-1885)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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2 Tobernea Terrace, Seapoint, Dublin. - Her husband Walter Noel Hartley has applied for the Chair of Chemistry at South Kensington; now fears Sir Henry Roscoe will give it to his friend Odling; Roscoe is using radical influence of Thomas Bayley Potter and Professor Huxley to further his ends; quotes Roscoe's refutation of promotion on merit; they will be ruined if the Nationalists and Jesuits manage to close the Dublin College of Science; will Houghton intercede with Lord Carlingford on her husband's behalf? Lady Cloncurry and Miss [Emily?] Lawless; her own current books: 'I have a novel creeping on - something in the style of Miss Ferrand'.

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