BIB_ID
301306
Accession number
MA 249.12
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1832 July 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (6 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
Noting that they have seen the railroad and he has not; asking if they have read [Friedrich] Schiller's Don Carlos and Wallenstein yet; reporting that he found himself in "the thickest and hottest jam of Duchesses and Countesses in which [he] ever was in [his] life"; describing an American man he met; mentioning a dinner with Lord John Russell and giving details of the guests at the dinner.
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