Item 11 - Letter from William Francis Cowper to Richard Monckton Milnes

4 ff.

Admiralty. - Difficulty of obtaining a messenger's place from Baring, especially for those over 30; Milnes's protégé unlikely to succeed; own position offers no preferments except schoolmasterships; unable to visit Woburn but 'shd like to see you draw on the buskin again - histrionics... are still allowed in reformed Abbeys'; opposition to Wiesman's belief that Catholic Bishops have the right to govern Protestants. Postscript: asks whether [Kingsley's] Alton Locke will do some good.