BIB_ID
193974
Accession number
MA 4731
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1853] Jan. 2.
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Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; 1992.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Parker was an American Unitarian minister and abolitionist. Amos Lawrence was a Massachusetts merchant and public benefactor who died three days before Thackeray wrote this letter.
With integral address leaf.
With integral address leaf.
Summary
Asking what music introduced his morning sermon: "The air is so touching and noble that it begat a desire in me to make some verses if I could," and enthusiastically praising the sermon, particularly "that climax about Mr. Lawrence."
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