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HOUG/D/C/3/8/16
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Letter from Robert Ripley to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 21 Dec. 1859 (Creation)
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Escrick. - Thanks for manuscript and gift; enjoyment of Milnes' poems; will accept offer of another book of poetry or literary biography; fond of Coleridge and Keats; Lady Wenlock unlikely to lend books as she has never spoken to Ripley. Will try to correct grammar and shorten poems, as Milnes suggests. Earning little as gardening is too strenuous for his chronic 'ossification of the heart'; pain of attacks and difficulty in breathing; would like a clerkship. Concludes with 'the workman's wish of the season, a Merry Christmas to you'.
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- Ripley, Robert (1839-1882), poet (Subject)
- Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet (Subject)
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834), poet, critic, and philosopher (Subject)
- Keats, John (1795-1821) poet (Subject)
- Lawley, Lady Elizabeth (1824-1899), née Grosvenor, wife of Beilby Richard Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock (Subject)