BIB_ID
325154
Accession number
MA 469.49
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1850 July 6].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) : ill. ; 18.2 cm
Notes
Date of writing identified by Ray.
Illustrated with a half-page sketch of Thackeray looking in surprise at the young coachwoman and with a smaller sketch of the parson's wife seated in profile.
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 from "Dieppe / Hotel Morgan."
Illustrated with a half-page sketch of Thackeray looking in surprise at the young coachwoman and with a smaller sketch of the parson's wife seated in profile.
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 from "Dieppe / Hotel Morgan."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Reporting that slight illness has marred his journey; regretting that he did not accept her invitation on Wednesday, noting that he dined out and had too much wine instead. Remarking that since he as been in Dieppe he took a drive to the country and noting that his driver was a "lively pretty girl" coachwoman who was only fifteen years old; describing a continental parson and his wife that he has met; noting that he has read three plays by Beaumarchais and two novels, one in six volumes by Dumas (Adventures de quatre femmes et d'un perroquet). Asking that they dine together on the 18th to celebrate his birthday; noting that he will now work on Pendennis.
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