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Letter from Charles Dickens, Broadstairs, to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1850 October 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
421044
Accession number
MA 1352.218
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1850 October 7.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 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 / Monday Seventh October 1850."
Envelope with seal and Dickens' signature to "Miss Burdett Coutts / Albion Hotel / Ramsgate."
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
Concerning a prospective inmate, Julia Dye, who has been recommended to him by Mr. Chesterton; saying she is "...a girl of 18, in prison for the first time, whose sentence will expire this day fortnight. It seems to be a very good case, and well adapted to the Home. I have informed him, in reply, that I have no doubt I may answer for your taking it. I have been in a state of dense idleness and incapacity since I saw you. This morning I am looking very hard at a blank quire of paper, and trying to persuade myself that I am going to begin Nos. 19 and 20 in earnest. Otherwise I should have come over, instead of sending this note."