BIB_ID
324579
Accession number
MA 469.21
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Monday" [1850 July 22].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing identified by Ray.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / at Miss Ogles (?) / Southampton."
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.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / at Miss Ogles (?) / Southampton."
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
Discussing an incident with a Madame de Baurel, who contacted Thackeray through his mother and insisted that she would commit suicide unless she could be relieved from her present difficulties; describing his annoyance at finding, when he met her, not a corpse but a "woman a great deal fatter than the most full fed person need be." Remarking that he at least "got a character" in making her acquaintance and noting that "some day she will turn up in that inevitable repertory of all ones thoughts and experiences que vous savez." Mentioning a visit to a sick poetess who is pining away for love, a splendid and dull banquet at the "Refawrum" Club, and outlining his busy social schedule.
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