BIB_ID
301336
Accession number
MA 249.21
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1833 Jan. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (8 p., with separate address sheet) ; 18 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 her about the "superb official garb" he just ordered from "a topping tailor in Bond Street who makes uniforms for His Majesty's Guards"; complaining that the "villains at Leeds" left him "the hustings and polling-booths to pay for -- near a hundred and twenty pounds"; reporting that [William] Walker is making an engraving of him; noting that he has "at last sent off a long and ... very dull article to Edinburgh" about "Lord Mahon's [Philip Henry Stanhope's] History of the War of Spanish Succession."
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