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HOUG/B/N/3/38
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Letter from Owen Howell to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 19 Feb. 1858 (Creation)
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1 sheet.
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Mail Office. - Is glad to hear of the arrival of Milnes' son 'into this beautiful, though mysterious world'; hopes he will be able to see the boy 'when he is old enough'. Is glad Milnes likes The Footprints of Mercy; copies out a verse which he has inserted before the last verse, beginning 'The tempest which shook down the oak / has from the rose its perfume stirred...'
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Tipped into HOUG/BN/3.