BIB_ID
301332
Accession number
MA 249.19
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1832 Dec. 22.
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
Thanking her for a pun; reporting that he is going to dine with Lord Essex, "the most famous bon-vivant of [the] day"; alluding to Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison; asking about her married life.
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