BIB_ID
107189
Accession number
MA 9132
Creator
Burdett, Francis, 1770-1844.
Display Date
1833 January 26.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.2 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Burdett gives the place of writing as "St. James's Place." Burdett lived at number 25, St. James's Place, from 1820 to 1844.
Address panel: "For Lady Blessington."
With a seal.
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.
Address panel: "For Lady Blessington."
With a seal.
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
Thanking her for her "truly kind note"; writing that he is "encouraged by your unvarying indulgence"; assuring her that "the fault you so obligingly complain of is neither voluntary nor unregretted, & moreover carries with it its own punishment"; adding in a postscript that he has sent for a book.
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