BIB_ID
326491
Accession number
MA 469.94
Creator
Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896.
Display Date
[1849 May].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (6 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.
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
Writing only to say that she is not ill and will return from the country on Saturday and assuring him that she did not find the latest number [of Pendennis] dull. Discussing his busy life, saying she is glad that his family is going off to Paris because "it will take off one of yr parts for a time -- that of a family man, -- & you will only have the author & the Major & the "satirist" & the sentimentalist &c &c &c to keep up;" further remarking that she thinks he is "living too fast" and fearing for his health. Briefly discussing some characters in Pendennis.
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