BIB_ID
188791
Accession number
MA 7330
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
undated [1846-1861].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.6 cm + envelope.
Notes
Date of writing from Harden.
Envelope with stamp and illegible postmark and addressed to "Mrs. F. Elliot / 14 Chisham Place."
Written on stationery embossed "Bedford Hotel Covent Garden."
Envelope with stamp and illegible postmark and addressed to "Mrs. F. Elliot / 14 Chisham Place."
Written on stationery embossed "Bedford Hotel Covent Garden."
Provenance
Lot no. 628 in an unidentifed sale; bequest of Gordon N. Ray in 1987.
Summary
Saying goodbye, noting that he is laid up with influenza and should stay in bed but that he must go because otherwise his mother will imagine he is very ill.
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