BIB_ID
324535
Accession number
MA 469.9
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1848 June 30].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 17.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 15 Portman St."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Apologizing for a "bad joke" in the latest number of Vanity Fair, in which Amelia's lady's maid is named Payne (the name of Mrs. Brookfield's lady's maid). Assuring her that she is "only a piece of Amelia," noting that "my Mother is another half: my poor little wife y est pour beaucoup." With a postscript asking her to write that she forgives him.
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