BIB_ID
301248
Accession number
MA 249.1
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1830 Mar. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch, 1906.
Summary
Thanking her for her letter; discussing a judge in Lancaster; mentioning the high demand for his "franking privilege"; noting that [James] Parker will be there soon; joking that sisters must write to him more often or he will look for "some smart Yorkshire damsel" to marry; reporting that he plans to write "a little wholesome correction to a bad poet" [Robert Montgomery] because "puffing of all sorts is [his] aversion; and [he thinks] this an excellent opportunity for exposing claims founded on puffing and on nothing else."
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