BIB_ID
326512
Accession number
MA 470.5
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1848 Dec. 18].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 16.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed simply to "Mrs. Brookfield." With a postscript: "I've not sent the pome."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Remarking that he thinks it is better to go to work than to be gallivanting about this fine morning and sending her instead Dickens's book [The Haunted Man]. With a postscript sending a draft of a ballad he wrote through the night of 13-14 December.
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