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- [1852?] (Creation)
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1 folded sheet
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After Lord Houghton’s death in 1885 his library passed firstly to his son the 1st Marquess of Crewe, then to Peggy, Marchioness of Crewe, and eventually to Lord Crewe’s daughter the Duchess of Roxburghe.
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The book containing this letter forms part of the bequest of Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, 2014.
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The verse is prefaced by Matilda Warburton 'Lines sent by my dear Husband to his sisters when he thought himself dying at Dublin'. First lines: 'Gentle Even! thou art dying / As I, ere they return, may die...'
Pencil number '3' added to front.
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Tipped in between the second and third folios following the title page of Warburton's Darien; or, The Merchant Prince. A Historical Romance. (London : Colburn & Co., 1852), in the Crewe Collection.