BIB_ID
325632
Accession number
MA 469.71
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
undated [1851?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.2 cm
Notes
Date of writing from A collection of letters of Thackeray, 1847-1855.
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.
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 that he had 100 subscribers and 200 other people for his first lecture, and wondering about the necessity of traveling to America when there is "so much money ... to be made in this empire."
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