BIB_ID
324471
Accession number
MA 469.1
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1847 June 15].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 14.1 cm
Notes
Date of writing identified by Ray.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Remarking that there will be no dinner at Greenwich on Monday because Dickens is giving a reconciliation banquet for him and Forster on that day; asking after Mrs. Brookfield; referencing his work on Vanity Fair, noting "I am being brought to bed of my seventh darling [for July, chapters 23-25] with inexpressible throes." Inviting him to visit on Sunday.
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