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Letter from Charles Dickens, Broadstairs, to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1848 August 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
420715
Accession number
MA 1352.118
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1848 August 29.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.4 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 / Twenty Ninth August 1848."
Envelope with seal, 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
Arranging a meeting with her and relating a concern expressed by Mr. Chesterton "...that the 'Committee' are rather summarily discharged of their duties, and have no very powerful existence but in name. I have written to give him another aspect of the case; but as he has always been greatly interested in the design, and is a very sincere and zealous man, perhaps, if you should see him again, you would not object to set him right yourself. I merely mention this, because I think you ought to know it, and because no one else can so gracefully reassure him. Looking at the matter from his point of view too, I don't think he sees it in an unreasonable light."