BIB_ID
253741
Accession number
MA 468
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
1852.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item ; 12.3 cm.
Notes
Including a letter from Anne Ritchie (Tennyson's daughter) to Mr. Pearson, dated April 9, 1907, saying that she must ask £100 for the pocketbook and will not sell it unless she can get that amount; apologizing for causing him "needless trouble;" The letter is written on stationery embossed "109, St. George's Square, / S.W;" the letter is tucked into the leather pocket at the front of the diary.
Shelved for many years in a drawer of Pierpont Morgan's desk in the West Room of The Morgan Library and Museum.
With a small pen and ink drawing, in the left upper corner of the first leaf, of the profile of a woman's head and with Thackeray's monogram drawn in pen and ink in the center of the page.
Shelved for many years in a drawer of Pierpont Morgan's desk in the West Room of The Morgan Library and Museum.
With a small pen and ink drawing, in the left upper corner of the first leaf, of the profile of a woman's head and with Thackeray's monogram drawn in pen and ink in the center of the page.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Being an appointment diary with entries from September 28 through December 31, 1852 which include time spent in Boston and New York on an American tour; the entries are few and lacking in detail.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (14.5 cm.)
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