Letter, [18]90 June 2 : the Pines [London], to Colonel [John Frederick] Maurice [n.p.].

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Letter, [18]90 June 2 : the Pines [London], to Colonel [John Frederick] Maurice [n.p.].

Sends thanks for the selection of a passage from one of his poems for use in a Waterloo Essay, and states his views concerning W.E. Gladstone's project of a tunnel under the English Channel.

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