BIB_ID
106408
Accession number
MA 9008
Creator
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849.
Display Date
1846 December 21.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm
Notes
On stationery with Blessington's gold embossed crest.
Though Howitt is not addressed by name in the greeting or elsewhere in the letter, the identification of her as the recipient is based on internal evidence.
From Dickens Correspondence.
Though Howitt is not addressed by name in the greeting or elsewhere in the letter, the identification of her as the recipient is based on internal evidence.
From Dickens Correspondence.
Summary
Thanking her for a book: "I would not thank you until I had perused every line, and having done so, I can with perfect truth congratulate you on having given the public one of the most interesting and beautiful books in our language"; praising her translations of Hans Christian Andersen ("a true Poet"); telling her that she has been reading Andersen's The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy (translated by Howitt) lately and that she is "enchanted with it."
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