BIB_ID
326483
Accession number
MA 469.90
Creator
Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896.
Display Date
[1850] Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
A few lines have been cancelled.
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.
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
Thanking him for a letter; remarking that it has been too rainy to drive out since he went away and mentioning that Anny and Minny worked all day during the rain until J. Bullar arrived. Reporting that she went to hear [the Unitarian and Christian Socialist] Maurice speak at Lincoln's Inn; asking if he has read a review of Pendennis in the North British Review. Reporting that Miss Anna Dick asked her to tell Thackeray that "her whole happiness for life depended upon your not making Laura marry "Such a wretch" as Pendennis but that she should marry "that dear Warrington.""
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