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Letter from Charles Dickens, Broadstairs, to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1850 September 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
421033
Accession number
MA 1352.214
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1850 September 6.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 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 from "Broadstairs / Friday Evening, Sixth September / 1850."
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
Informing her that he told Mrs. Morson that unless she heard from Miss Coutts to the contrary she should admit the four girls; commenting on Miss Coutts's commitment to education; saying "It would be a great thing for all of us if more who are powerfully concerned with Education, thought, as you do, of the imaginative faculty. Precisely what you say in your note, is always in my mind, in that connexion; mentioning the three best publishing houses for children's books and saying that he will send her their catalogues, if the houses publish them for children's books; saying that Charley "has grown two inches" and is "as brown as any boatman here, and goes back to Eton tomorrow week. Will you tell me, at your leisure, whether I shall try to get a number of little books for you to select from - and when?"