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HOUG/D/B/2/32
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Letter from Sumner Jones to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 23 Feb. 1859 (Creation)
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2 ff MS.
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27 Westbourne Park Villas, Harrow Road, W. - Will meet Milnes on Sunday; encloses further copies of the 'Dream' [no longer present]; poetry of Burns; his request concerning Blackwood; unsucessful attempts to publish a poem, 'The Contention of Love and Ambition' in 1841, now wishes to publish something to make up for lost poetic years; own personal sufferings are not as great as they might be, despite his careworn appearance.
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HOUG/DD/5/7: proof of poem, 'A Dream of Burns', referred to in this letter.