BIB_ID
421653
Accession number
MA 1352.672
Creator
Starey, Samuel Robert, 1820-1904.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 October 18.
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Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows, 1951.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.4 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 "17 Ampton Street / Oct'r 18 1843."
Written from "17 Ampton Street / Oct'r 18 1843."
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
Thanking him for his interest in the school and for the £10 from Miss Coutts "...to whom I beg that you will express my grateful acknowledgment on behalf of the Committee and for laying the subject before the Council on Education which I sincerely trust will be attended with a favorable result - I beg to enclose a Receipt as requested - With yourself I much regret that your excellent proposal with regard to washing & removal of the School to some more commodious and convenient premises cannot at present be carried into effect but since I last wrote you I have seen the Landlord of a large Shed in West Street and am using my best endeavours to prevail on him to let it us to convert into a School room which will accomodate 3 or 400 pupils; this could be done for about £90 - besides the yearly Rent. If I should be successful in obtaining a proposition from him I trust you will not consider me intruding on your valuable time by communicating the same."
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