BIB_ID
325170
Accession number
MA 469.52
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1849 Mar. 12-13].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing identified by Ray; place of writing inferred from contents of the letter and from postmarks.
Envelope with postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 15 Portman St. / Portman Sqre. London." The back flap of the envelope is embossed with a return address for the Bull Hotel, Cambridge.
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.
Several lines have been cancelled by Brookfield.
Envelope with postmarks and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 15 Portman St. / Portman Sqre. London." The back flap of the envelope is embossed with a return address for the Bull Hotel, Cambridge.
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.
Several lines have been cancelled by Brookfield.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Describing his visit to Cambridge; noting that he is writing from a busy coffee apartment and remarking on the chattering of the young undergraduates; remarking on the melancholia of revisiting the college and noting that the dining hall smells exactly as it did twenty years ago. Mentioning a Jenny Lind concert and thanking her for a letter.
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