BIB_ID
116086
Accession number
MA 1028
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1925.
Description
1 v. (4 p.), bound ; 22.7 cm
Notes
The ballads were written in jest by Thackeray, prompted by the anger of the Irish over his story of "Catherine," published in Frazer's Magazine, 1839-40.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. in July 1925.
Summary
Being two poems, the first, "The Terrible Hays Tragedy" and the second untitled; the first is 13 stanzas and written on the recto of one page and the verso of the following; the second ballad is written on the rectos of two pages and comprises 12 stanzas.
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