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Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to "Dear Miss Scott", Accession # 6817-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This holding was purchased from David Holmes of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1993.
In this letter to "Dear Miss Scott" Frances Hodgson Burnett of 1770 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C., writes to arrange a date for spending an evening with "the young ladies of the Institute" before she sails for England on May second and suggests April the fourth; asks that Mr. [Fabell ?] "allow the evening to be quite private. I want to have the pleasant informal feeling of merely talking as it were to a lot of nice girls. It won't interest me in the least if I have the sense of an audience."; and asks her correspondent to thank Mr. Fabell for the photograph which he sent her. The dating of the letter is based on internal evidence with information from the biography of Burnett by her son, Vivian Burnett, The Romantick Lady , pages 224-230.