BIB_ID
301338
Accession number
MA 249.22
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1833 Jan. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Quaritch, 1906.
Summary
Describing his day and noting that "the hard part of [his] duty is the necessity under which [he] lie[s] of seeing and hearing all the bores who chuse to bestow their tediousness on" him; telling her a story about Sir David Baird.
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