BIB_ID
324650
Accession number
MA 469.35
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1849 Oct. 23].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing identified by Ray.
Envelope with postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 15 Portman St. Portman Sq. / London."
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.
The second of two letters written to Brookfield on 23 October 1849; see also MA 469.34.
Envelope with postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 15 Portman St. Portman Sq. / London."
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.
The second of two letters written to Brookfield on 23 October 1849; see also MA 469.34.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Apologizing for his bad handwriting in his letter from that morning, blaming it on "a bad pen and impossible ink." Describing his day of sitting in a Bath Chair and dozing and meeting various acquaintances.
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