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Autograph letter signed : Newcastle on Tyne, to Eleanor Tennent, 1869 Mar. 9.

BIB_ID
234957
Accession number
MA 4979.49
Creator
Forster, John, 1812-1876.
Display Date
1869 Mar. 9.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1995.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.1 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters between Charles Dickens, Sir James Emerson Tennent and his family, and John Forster. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 4979 for more information.
Written on mourning stationery.
Summary
Condoling with her on the death of her father, Sir James Emerson Tennent; remembering her father as his intimate friend of 40 years; asking if there is "anything of any kind whatever, in deed or in word, that [he] can do at this moment for [her] dear mother or [her]self."