BIB_ID
301388
Accession number
MA 249.31
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1833 July 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (8 p., with separate address sheet) ; 19.1 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
Discussing a bill related to India that he is working on in Parliament; reporting that his engraved portrait is finished; noting that he is "pining for country-air, early hours, cool rooms, and, more than all, the society of [his] dear sisters."
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