BIB_ID
421633
Accession number
MA 1352.669
Creator
Scott, Elizabeth, active 19th century.
Display Date
London, England, 1848 September 8.
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.6 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 ten letters written by Catherine Dickens to Angela Burdett Coutts and 73 letters written by others to Miss Coutts or to Dickens in his capacity as her unofficial almoner. See the collection-level record for more information.
Written from "Shepherds Bush / Sept. 8th, 1848."
Written from "Shepherds Bush / Sept. 8th, 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
Concerning her Property Tax exemption for Urania Cottage; saying "...as I claim exemption from the Property tax and a deduction having been made from each payment of rent I should esteem it a favor if you would be kind enough to give some instructions by which it may be rectified before the next rent becomes due."
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