Rare ALS in German, signed “H. C. Andersen,” one page, 4 x 7, July 25, 1847. Untranslated letter written from the Sablonier Hotel in Leicester Square. In very good to fine condition, with light overall mottled toning, and strips of old tape along the left edge. In June 1847, Anderson made his first visit to England as the guest of Countess Blessington, a hostess whom enabled Andersen to meet and dine with many of Europe's intelligentsia. Of particular significance for Andersen was his eventual meeting with Charles Dickens at a dinner party. The pair established a correspondence and, a decade later, Andersen returned to England and stayed with Dickens at Gads Hill Place for five weeks; the prolonged holiday aggravated the Dickens household to the extent that Dickens ceased all future correspondence with Andersen, much to the author’s confusion.
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