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Letter from Hans Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, to Richard Bentley, 1853 April 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447356
Accession number
MA 2876.21
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, sender.
Display Date
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1853 April 14
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Douglas C. Ewing, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 21.1 x 13.9 cm (folded)
Notes
Addressed "Dear friend!"
Provenance
Purchased in 1974.
Summary
Thanking him for sending copies of Andersen's new book in English; awaiting an English announcement for the book "that here in Denmark is estimated as high as my fairy-tales"; expressing pleasure at the language but noting mistranslations and omissions; expressing displeasure at the English title chosen for the book; asking for a promised copy of the book to be sent to a Hubert Smith in Shropshire; hoping to see a review of his book in The Athenaeum magazine; sending to Charles Dickens his pleasure from "Bleak House"; commenting on the weather in Denmark.