BIB_ID
326509
Accession number
MA 470.4
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1851 Mar. 18-19?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) : ill. ; 16.7 cm
Notes
Illustrated with a sketch of a burning candle.
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield and others. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible date of writing identified by Ray.
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield and others. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible date of writing identified by Ray.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Expressing concern over her health, asking her to write that it is "nothing very bad." Continuing the letter on Wednesday: wondering what he has been doing these many days, remarking that he hardly knows and has probably been "thinking about you chiefly I think; and wanting you back."
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