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ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

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ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>(1819-1861). British poet who wrote the <i>Latest Decalogue</i>, a commentary on the Ten Commandments; and best identified with his poem “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.” ALS “<i>A. H. Clough,</i>” 4pp, 8vo, Privy Council Office, London, Mar 2, n.y. Clough writes on behalf of celebrated English nurse <b>Florence Nightingale</b> (1820-1910) to the Rev. Elias Nason in Medford, MA. “<i>Miss Nightingale has received your letter...Owing to ill-health she is obliged to depute others to answer her letters, & she requests me to acknowledge yours. I fear I must ask you to excuse her sending any autograph. With regard to her life, I may say that a fairly accurate account of it may be found in the Biographical portion of Knight’s English Cyclo-paedia: but so long as she continues to be alive, no authorized memoir is likely to appear. I enclose this to my friend Mr. Charles Norton of Cambridge</i>...” Boldly penned and signed. Annotated in another hand at top left corner margin, “<i>Florence Nightingale by an amanuensis</i>.” Occasional staining and wear; o/w in good condition. Penned during his later years, Clough “took a lively interest in helping the work of his relation, Miss Nightingale.”</span></p>