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  • Letter from Coventry Patmore to William Allingham, October circa 1854
    Multi-Page Item | 6 pages | 1854 | William Allingham papers, 1846-1920One letter from British poet Coventry Patmore to William Allingham informing him that in a day or two he will receive a copy of a poem by "C.K. Dighton," which is the pseudonym Patmore would like to assume for the present. Patmore explains that this in light of the attacks he had sustained from the Times regarding his father's book. He writes that only a few members of the P...
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