BIB_ID
325831
Accession number
MA 469.82
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1849 Feb. 4-5].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 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.
Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
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.
Place of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Describing his meeting with Jules Janin that day, noting he has "a magnificent jolly intelligent face such as would suit Pan." Remarking that he had a long talk with a young woman the previous day and relaying some gossip; noting that he did not fall in love with her because they were brought up together. Continuing the letter on Tuesday: noting that his letter was interrupted the previous evening as friends came to visit him and remarking on the coquetry of his cousin. Reporting that he dined again on mock-turtle soup and attended a ball; describing other attendants there. Noting that he also visited his and William's old friend Bowes; intending to attend a lecture on Burns. Recalling his time in Paris thirteen years before "just after I was ruined and before I fell in love and took to marriage and writing." Mentioning that he couldn't find the lecture and so visited the Louvre instead; remarking on the grandeur of the Venus of Milo and mentioning the colors of the Titian pictures and some other paintings. Describing a drive with his cousin, noting she was worth coming to Paris for.
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