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HOUG/D/D/8/5
Title
Letter from Richard Chenevix Trench, Archbishop of Dublin, to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 16 Mar. 1881 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Scope and content
Trusts Houghton's diplomatic skill to maintain gravity of a competition in which few Englishmen are interested [the Calderon poetry competition]; appends a sonnet in honour of Sir G[eorge Pomeroy] Colley, a hero who will only be remembered for three disastrous mistakes. Printed verse, 'In Memoriam G. P. C., Feb. 27 1881'.