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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed to Mrs Morson, Tavistock House, 11 December 1852, one page, 8vo, enclosing a note from Miss Coutts [not present] 'preparing you to receive a new case', presumably giving advance warning of a new admittance to the women's refuge in Shepherd's Bush (see lot 315). Dickens' friendship with the rich philanthropist Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts had begun in 1839. Framed.
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