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HOUG/B/N/3/28
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Letter from William Thomson to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- 16 Jan. 1858 (Creation)
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Whitehaven. - Very glad to see the news of the birth of Milnes' son announced in the Times; hopes Milnes and his wife will live to see their son 'develop some of the qualities which make his parents beloved to all that know them'; years have passed since he and Milnes 'met on the Danube', and he does not find that 'the union of high intelligence and kindly sympathy with others which it was easy to discover in both [his] travelling companions, is other than rare in the world'. His wife is not with him but he knows she will share his joy at the news. Returns to Oxford on Monday.
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Tipped into HOUG/BN/3.