BIB_ID
301405
Accession number
MA 249.34
Creator
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.
Display Date
1834 Jan. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 18.2 and 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
Telling her that her last letter "moved and gratified" him; saying he will give her more time to recover from her "indisposition and the agitation of parting with Hannah" before he comes to visit her; noting when he and Hannah plan to leave for India; reporting that he is trying to finish an article before he leaves.
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