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Letter from Charles Dickens, Broadstairs, to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1850 October 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
421047
Accession number
MA 1352.219
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
Broadstairs, England, 1850 October 23.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 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 / Wednesday Twenty Third October / 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
Saying "I have just finished Copperfield, and dont know whether to laugh or cry;" asking her to look at two letters he enclosed and "tell me whether it shall be done;" asking that she send her reply to him in town as "I have an idea of wandering somewhere for a day or two - to Rochester, I think, where I was a small boy - to get all this fortnight's work out of my head, but I shall be at home soon;" sending his regards to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, in a postscript, and adding "I hope 'She' will like the close of the story - to say nothing of You!"