Item 2 - Letter from William Henry Davenport Adams to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/D/C/3/2/2

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Letter from William Henry Davenport Adams to Lord Houghton

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  • 30 Oct. 1877 (Creation)

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4 ff.

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Milnes, Richard Monckton (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, author and politician
(1809-1885)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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405 Sauciehall Street, Glasgow. - Has been obliged to resign from newspaper owing to effect of night work on health; his wife also ill; cannot find literary employment at present; names publications in support of request for Literary Fund grant; Houghton contributed to his edition of poems; has recommendation of Earl of Glasgow.

Enclosing printed notice given critics’ opinions of publications by Davenport Adams, Aug. 1876.

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