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[ Angela Burdett Coutts, Victorian philanthropist. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('A G B Coutts') to Lady Murchison, regarding her votes in an election, and 'our friend the Rajah' in Borneo (presumably Sir James Brooke).

Author: 
Angela Burdett-Coutts [ Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, born Angela Georgina Burdett ] (1814-1906), Victorian philanthropist [ Lady Charlotte Murchison (1788-1869) ]
Publication details: 
Stratton Street [ London ]. 18 [February?] 1860.
£35.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with negligible traces of mount on blank reverse of second leaf. Written in a somewhat difficult hand. The letter begins: 'My Votes are I am happy to say at liberty I enclose them'. She continues by expressing her 'distress' at the health of one of her sisters, who has been 'at St Leonards - she is I am thankful to say now out of danger'. She sends the best wishes of 'Mrs Burns', noting that 'the Election is in April'.

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