BIB_ID
301309
Accession number
MA 249.14
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1832 July 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 23.1 and 32.3 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
Saying that "the cholera is all humbug in [his] opinion"; noting that "London is thinning fast," and he is spending much of his time sitting in the House "for so few members are left that we are in contstant danger of being counted out"; repeating other details of London news; discussing his sisters' drawings; mentioning that he hopes to see their paintings in "the new Gallery which we are going to build for the Royal Academy at Charing Cross" [the National Gallery]; joking that he expects them to paint like [Adriaan van] Ostade and [J.M.W.] Turner.
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