MILTON’S COTTAGE
LORD WAKEFIELD’S GENEROUS OFFER British Official Wireless (Received August 24, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 22. The trustees of the poet John Miltons cottage at Chaifort, St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, recently issued an appeal for £l2OO to enable them to purchase an adjoining piece of land which was threatened by builders. They now announce that Lord Wakefield has expressed his desire to purchase this land and present it to the trustees as a means of associating with Milton’s cottage, the ward of Bread Street in the City of London, of which he is an aiderman, and in which Milton was born.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20505, 25 August 1936, Page 7
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101MILTON’S COTTAGE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20505, 25 August 1936, Page 7
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