Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to her son, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1812 June 17.

BIB_ID
124600
Accession number
MA 249.44
Creator
Macaulay, Selina, 1767-1831.
Display Date
1812 June 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of autograph letters signed with initials from Macaulay to his sisters, Margaret and Hannah. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 249 for more information.
With postmark and seal; place of writing is from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch, 1906.
Summary
Discussing his visit home from his school near Cambridge; reminding him to request a seat inside the coach for she "would on no account have [him] go on the outside"; asking him to "write a line as soon as [he has] fixed the day" of his trip.