A Letter from Charles Dickens to a North-east woman is part of a museum's new exhibition.
The note, which was sent with 10 guineas, was in reply to a widow's begging letter. And his signed, handwritten letter of sympathy is one of the hidden treasures which forms a new exhibition at Peterhead's Arbuthnot House.
The note, from March 1862, is one of tens of thousands of historic pieces kept in storage by Aberdeenshire Council.
On headed notepaper from the office of All the Year Round, a weekly journal, Mr Dickens said he learned with "great upset" that the lady was in need of help and was happy to oblige.
The exhibition of artefacts, maps and newspapers and is now on at the St Peter Street museum.
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