BIB_ID
324550
Accession number
MA 469.13
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1848].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 10.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "Revd. W.H. Brookfield / 15 Portman St."
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.
Possible year of writing identified by Ray, who notes that the Brookfields moved to Portman Street in April, 1848.
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.
Possible year of writing identified by Ray, who notes that the Brookfields moved to Portman Street in April, 1848.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Remarking that he came home to find someone had sent him tickets to the opera and inviting Brookfield to join him. Noting that Jenny Lind is singing and with a postscript inviting him to dine with Thackeray and his children before the opera.
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