BIB_ID
301327
Accession number
MA 249.18
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1832 Dec. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 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
Reporting that he was "shocked and deeply grieved ... to hear the sad news of [Thomas Hyde] Villiers's death"; telling her that he is taking a vacant government office and will have unlimited franking in his new position; asking her not to tell people that he has unlimited franking; expressing his distress at the prospect of Margaret's marriage: "on Saturday I shall return to that home which is no longer to be the home of my dearest Margaret ... farewell dearest, dearest, dearest. What are the anxieties of elections and of office. What is even the death of common friends to the bitterness of this parting."
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