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Letter from Hans Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, to Richard Bentley, 1858 April 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447363
Accession number
MA 2876.26
Creator
Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, sender.
Display Date
Copenhagen, 1858 April 16
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Douglas C. Ewing, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.3 x 13.4 cm (folded)
Notes
Addressed "My dear friend!"
Provenance
Purchased in 1974.
Summary
Mentioning a question from his German editor he had posed "at the close of last year"; recommending a translation of his New Stories by a Miss Wulff; informing that his new volume of fairy tales sold 2000 copies (as opposed to the more typical 500) in Denmark in 10 days; commenting on how well-received his writing is in Denmark; reporting that on his birthday, April 2nd, King Frederick VII honored him with "another danish decoration"; discussing the publication of his new volume of stories and the remuneration for his translator and himself; expecting the book to be lucrative.