BIB_ID
324543
Accession number
MA 469.11
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[ca. 1848 Oct. 14].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.5 cm
Notes
Date of writing identified A Collection of Letters of Thackeray, which notes that the lines were written a few days after a letter to Mrs. Brookfield of 14 October 1848 (MA 469.10).
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.
Written in Thackeray's slanting hand.
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.
Written in Thackeray's slanting hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
An 8-line poem regretting that he missed an invitation to dine.
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