BIB_ID
324640
Accession number
MA 469.32
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1849 May 4].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Brookfield has cancelled two short passages and cut out one passage apparently referring to her relationship with Thackeray.
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
Asking whether William has written her about their trip to Hampstead and describing their afternooon there. Asking whether she has read Dickens [the first number of David Copperfield], remarking that it is "charming" and "has some of his very prettiest touches -- those inimitable Dickens touches [which] make such a great man of him;" alluding to their authorial relationship, noting that "David Copperfield will be improved by taking a lesson from Vanity Fair," and remarking that he has been curiously cast down the past month and that Copperfield has put him back on his mettle. Describing the scene at Gore house [before the sale of Lady Blessington's furniture and effects]. Asking her to come back.
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