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HOUG/B/P/4/30
Title
Paper file originally containing correspondence relating to Robert Pemberton Milnes' refusal of a peerage in 1856
Date(s)
- [1880s?] (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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Scope and content
Inscribed 'Lord Palmerston's offer of a hereditary Peerage to Mr R. P. Milnes and his refusal. | Correspondence with Lord Palmerston and also the late Lord Houghton and other members of the family | 1856'.
Probably created by A. E. Scanes as part of his arrangement of Lord Houghton's correspondence after his death.