BIB_ID
301253
Accession number
MA 249.2
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1831 Aug. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.7 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
Discussing his affection for his sisters and noting that "wealth, power, fame, have become as nothing to [him] compared with their most sweet and precious affection"; asking for news of "who has been backbiting whom -- and who has reported the backbiting to the person backbitten"; requesting that she not show the letter to anyone but Hannah Macaulay.
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