Letters of Charles Dickens to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts

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"...Dickens wrote a very large number of letters to Miss Burdett-Coutts, and up to 1855 aided and advised her in many ways. He was never formally Miss Burdett-Coutts's secretary, but he discharged many of the more confidential and important duties of a private secretary, investigated the appeals of many a begging letter, acted as her almoner, while he often brought under her notice distressing cases which she never failed to relieve..." -- Introduction.