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Letter from W.H.D. Longstaffe …

Letter from W.H.D. Longstaffe, Darlington, to M.A. Denham, saying he is engaged to dine with Ogle, who has injured his heel, but is not sure about visiting Norton; mentioning a lady staying at Mr. Dobson’s who would like to see the quilt; enclosing the Literary Gazette, Way’s tract and a set of his ‘legends of Durham’, which The Advertiser has printed at 1 shilling the set; asking for copies of the July, August and September issues of The Gazette; explaining the meaning behind the saying ‘it was such a wind at Darlington, that it blew a dog’s tongue off’, 27 January 1849 – From:Letters to Michael Aislabie Denham, William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe

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D/X 1338/9/19

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1 paper

Date

late 17th century,
1884

Era

Victorian (1837 to 1901)

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1884

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People	Denham, Norton, Ogle, Longstaffe
Places	Darlington, Durham
Organisations	The Advertiser, The Gazette
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