BIB_ID
124806
Accession number
MA 249.1-47
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1812 June 17-1850 Mar. 20
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 box (47 items), unbound ; size varies
Notes
Mainly signed with initials.
Many with addresses, postmarks, and seals.
Removed from bound volume, 1967.
Many with addresses, postmarks, and seals.
Removed from bound volume, 1967.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch, 1906.
Summary
Collection includes 43 autograph letters signed with initials to his sister, Margaret, or to his sisters, Hannah and Margaret (MA 249.1-43); one autograph letter signed to his nephew, Charles Cropper (MA 249.45); two autograph letters signed to unidentified recipients (MA 249.46-7); and one autograph letter signed from his mother, Selina Macaulay, to Thomas Babington Macaulay (MA 249.44). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 249.1-47).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.6 cm)
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