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Autograph letter : place not specified, to [William and Jane Brookfield], "Wednesday" [1849 May 16].

BIB_ID
325172
Accession number
MA 469.53
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1849 May 16].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
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
Remarking on his "awful smash at the Literary Fund," noting it was a "tremendous exhibition of madness & imbecility."