BIB_ID
116078
Accession number
MA 474
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1855?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (67 p.) ; 44.5 cm
Notes
The manuscript includes 14 pages in the hand of Thackeray, 45 pages in the hand of his daughter Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie and 8 pages in the hand of his amanuensis, George Hodder.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson in July 1907.
Summary
Being a draft copy of Thackeray's Lecture on George III, with autograph additions and corrections; including penciled notations in the margins on many leaves indicating the passages that were suppressed for Thackeray's American lectures.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (47.5 cm)
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