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Letter from Charles Dickens, Broadstairs, to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1848 September 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
420729
Accession number
MA 1352.122
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1848 September 17.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 10.8 cm
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 on mourning stationery from "Broadstairs / Sunday Seventeenth September / 1848."
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
Sending her a proof of the Mark Table, saying he has had no news from Mrs. Holdsworth which he believes means all is well, and reporting that the weather is the finest he has ever seen.