Item 17 - Letter from William Stirling to Richard Monckton Milnes

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HOUG/D/F/1/17

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Letter from William Stirling to Richard Monckton Milnes

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  • 17 Dec. 1850 (Creation)

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2 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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Keir. - Unable to visit Milnes or Sir Reginald Mo[--?]. Cantos II and III are dedicated to Milnes and Maxwell; saw and admired Canto II in manuscript. Did not request the [Trench/French?] catalogue, 'So the bidding for the Adages suffered some substractionage'. Prescott writes from America with fond memories of England.

Postscript: is inscribing places in his library with mottos 'explanatory or eulogistic of the genus loci'; would like to include Milnes' French quotation but cannot read name of its author, apparently Pixecourt [i.e. Pixerécourt?]; still seeks quotations; adds a Latin one found in 'the Doctor'.

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