Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to "Mr. President," 1861 March 19.

BIB_ID
107187
Accession number
MA 9139
Creator
Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, 1814-1906.
Display Date
1861 March 19.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Burdett-Coutts gives the place of writing as "Stratton Street." She owned a townhouse at 1 Stratton Street in London for many years.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Telling him that a friend of hers has a speaking engagement nearby and will call on him "just after the Examination for my Scholarships"; adding that she has asked her friend to bring her "all news & statistics [...] and I should feel very much obliged if you would tell him if any alteration seemed to you desirable"; thanking him for his kindness "to our young friends the Wagners"; adding in a postscript "[w]ith this Mr. [Rowson] kindly takes charge of the Prints from Pictures in my possession which I hope Mrs Bell and yourself will accept & perhaps reorganize."