BIB_ID
447312
Accession number
MA 2876.12
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, sender.
Display Date
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1851 March 23
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Douglas C. Ewing, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 21.3 x 13.7 cm (folded)
Notes
Addressed "My dear Friend!"
Provenance
Purchased in 1974.
Summary
Thanking him for quick receipt of the third manuscript for "Pictures of Sweden"; accepting his suggestion not to dedicate his book to "Mr Jordan" but asking Bentley to send a copy to Jordan, as well as copies to Charles Dickens, William Hurton, Fru Hambro, and perhaps Queen Victoria; discussing the publication of the Danish edition of the book after the English edition; discussing what the book will be called in English and Danish but leaving all ultimate publishing decisions to Bentley; deciding not to dedicate the book to Dickens; reporting his grief at the deaths of Emma Hartmann and Hans Christian Ørsted; eulogizing Ørsted.
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