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HOUG/D/D/10/1
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Letter from Thomas Paradise of the Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury to Lord Houghton
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- 16 Jul. 1864 (Creation)
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2 ff, and enclosed cuttings.
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On printed notepaper, 'Mercury Office', Stamford. - Invites Houghton to join subscribers for a Memorial to the late John Clare to be erected in Helpston churchyard; the Churchwarden, Mr. Bellars, is very much involved. Paradise wrote obitutary of Clare in the Gentleman's Magazine for June. With press cuttings on proposed Memorial to David Gray, and on John Clare's writings whilst confined to Northampton Lunatic Asylum (extract from account by Eliza Cook, 1851).
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- Paradise, Thomas (c 1813-1871), newspaper editor (Subject)
- Clare, John (1793-1864), poet (Subject)
- Gray, David (1838-1861), poet (Subject)