Autograph letter signed : Dover, to Henry Austin, 1852 Sept. 6.

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Autograph letter signed : Dover, to Henry Austin, 1852 Sept. 6.

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Discussing Miss Coutts anxiety to "take preventive measure against the cholera down in her part of Westminster" and noting that she would "take it as a great favor" if Austin and Dr. Smith could meet the clergyman of her church and advise her on the project. Mentioning that he can never "remember what the name of the Poor Dwelling Improvement Society whereof Gatliffe is the Secretary" [The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes], though he is a shareholder, and asking Austin if he knows because Dickens thinks he "may get them a good shareholder in the person of Miss Coutts."

1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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