BIB_ID
301265
Accession number
MA 249.6
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1832 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 23.2 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
Telling them he learned from Nancy that they are "seeing sights ... and have no time to write at length"; asking them to describe their "journey by steam"; alluding to Frances Trollope's The Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny Burney's Evelina, and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; requesting them to "above all tell [him] tales of each other"; mentioning the business of Parliament; noting that he is stuck in London until September.
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