Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/D/C/3/4/12
Title
Letter from R. C. Wrightson to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 12 Jun. 1861 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2 ff.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
12 Theobald's Road, Red Lion Square. - Management of publishing business whose proprietor is Rev. [Abercromby Lockhart] Gordon, brother of the Chairman of the Oriental Bank; he requires £1000 for travel to expand Bible publishing business and can offer stock worth £6000 as security - lists titles. Writer would acknowledge Milnes' support by presenting him with 'the MS of the immortal Elegy. Postscript: Rev. Gordon bought firm of Partridge & Oakey; encloses catalogue [no longer present].