BIB_ID
325580
Accession number
MA 469.69
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
undated [1848-1851].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Dated to 1851 in A collection of letters of Thackeray; possible years of writing from Ray.
Mrs. Brookfield has cancelled the full name of the person about which Thackeray is writing.
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.
Mrs. Brookfield has cancelled the full name of the person about which Thackeray is writing.
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 feelings for Mrs. C.W.H., mentioning that "Memory without Hope is but a negative idiosyncrasy and hope without memory a plant that has no root." Noting that Mrs. C.W.H. will not understand him but that [Brookfield] will.
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