BIB_ID
301264
Accession number
MA 249.5
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1832 June 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Docketed and with the note: "After getting into Parl[iamen]t at Leeds."
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
Recommending that they read about his day in Leeds (after being returned to Parliament) in the newspaper he sent them; repeating several "witty" puns and a short poem about sisters.
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