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Letter from Charles Dickens, Broadstairs, to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1847 August 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
420547
Accession number
MA 1352.75
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1847 August 17.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
The letter is part of a collection, MA 1352, which consists of letters from Charles Dickens to the Baroness, to her companion Hannah (Meredith) Brown, or the latter's husband, William Brown; with 70 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner; and a few others. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Broadstairs / Seventeenth August 1847."
Envelope with seal, postage stamp, postmarks and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Stratton Street / Piccadilly / London."
Provenance
The letters formed part of the Burdett-Coutts sale (Sotheby, 17 May 1922); they were purchased for Oliver W. Barrett in whose collection they remained until it was sold by his son (Parke-Bernet, 31 October 1951).
Summary
Apologizing that he is unable to call on her before the 26th or 27th; reporting that as he and Mr. Chesterton had "...agreed upon the alterations to be made, and the contractor to be employed, I begged him to have the estimate made and the work begun without loss of time. Which I have no doubt is already done."