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Reference code
HOUG/D/C/3/4/4
Title
Letter from William Coningham to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- [1849] (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
2 ff.
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Scope and content
Brighton. - Is not selling his pictures for the benefit of Froude but because of losses in the West Indies caused by Government folly. £15 or £20 is a large sum to find, and Froude is not a personal friend. Details of Coningham's wife's health. Sending Froude to Germany would be the ruin of him; he would be better working for the press or going to America.