BIB_ID
439802
Accession number
MA 14345.87
Creator
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885, sender.
Display Date
Alresford, England, 1860? January 8
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on embossed stationery from "The Grange / Alresford".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Recounting the last days of (Thomas Babington) Macaulay and a final visit he made to him on the same day the deaths of De Quincey and Washington Irving appeared in the papers; informing her that he going to his funeral tomorrow, which will be held "appropriately at the foot of Addison's statue."
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