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AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, image 1
AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, image 2
AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, image 3
AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, image 4
AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, image 5
AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, image 6
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875.
Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind,

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS ILLUSTRATOR.

ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. 1805-1875. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in Danish to illustrator Lorenz Frølich pressing him for the promised drawings for "Godfather's Picture Book," the first story in the 1874 collection, Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind, 3 pp, 8vo, Copenhagen, April 28, 1874, with original autograph transmittal envelope and additional autograph envelope.

ANDERSEN LOOKING TO COMPLETE THE FINAL VOLUME OF HIS FIRST COMPLETE FAIRY TALES. After the death of Vilhelm Pedersen in 1859, Lorenz Frølich took over as Andersen's official illustrator, his first publication coming with 1867's Femten Eventyr og Historier. Here, writing a year before his death, Andersen kindly asks him for his drawings to illustrate the story "Godfather's Picture Book," intended as the first story in the final volume of Andersen's complete fairy tales. Reitzel and Andersen are concerned as they cannot begin printing the book until they receive Frølich's promised illustrations.

The book Nye Eventyr og Historier, Tredie Bind appeared in December, 1874, forming the 5th and final volume of Andersen and Reitzel's culmination of a lifetime of publishing, the complete fairy tales. Along with two volumes published in 1862-3, and illustrated by Pedersen, and the two previous volumes published in 1870 and 1871, illustrated by Frølich, this volume would complete the work, compiling every fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen, although a final tale would be issued in 1875, Historien om en Moder i Femten Sprog. Particularly in Denmark, the illustrations of Frølich, along with Pedersen, are synonymous with Andersen's tales.

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