BIB_ID
447283
Accession number
MA 2876.1
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, sender.
Display Date
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1848 July 12
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Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Douglas C. Ewing, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.1 x 13.6 cm (folded)
Notes
Addressed "Dear Friend!"
Provenance
Purchased in 1974.
Summary
Hoping he received his last letter from Fünen and reporting that he is now in Copenhagen; informing that "the two first parts of my new novel ["The Two Baronesses"] are already in English manuscript, and the third and last part will also be ready in the beginning of next month"; enclosing the first part (not included) and promising the rest; hoping "that this new born child may afford us both much pleasure"; asking how Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel [likely "Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings"] has been received and informing that it just arrived; reporting that he never heard from Bulwer-Lytton after he sent a compliment; promising a letter on "these serious times in Denmark"; sending wishes of a good summer.
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