Letter from Hans Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, to Richard Bentley, 1849 May 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

Commenting on how long it has been since he has heard from Bentley; lamenting for "my dear and suffering fatherland"; expressing support for Denmark and lamenting the costs of war; describing constant anxiety over the war with Germany and fruitless hopes for peace and "the sympathy of the great powers for Denmark"; thanking him (who he points out is at his country estate) for payment for "The Two Baronesses"; wishing he would hear his opinions on the book; reminding him "to give Mr. Hambro a copy of the different papers in which the romance was mentioned"; hoping for any good news; sending "a few words" to Charles Dickens; reporting that he never heard from Edward Bulwer Lytton; informing that he wished to visit Sweden but that the war prevented him from doing so; needing to find a peaceful place in which to write "a new work which presses itself on me more and more"; hoping again for peace; contemplating traveling to Finland "to see the sun at midnight"; informing that Fredrika Bremer is traveling to Fünen, Langeland, and "to see our green beech woods" and that she has been in Copenhagen all winter; noting that Bremer wrote a work about her time in Denmark, "Life in the North"; positively describing Bremer.