Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to [Jane Brookfield], [1849 June?].

BIB_ID
326525
Accession number
MA 470.11
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1849 June?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
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 month and year of writing identified by Ray.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Remarking that even though he was close to her house that morning and very hungry, he resisted coming in and asking her to lunch. Mentioning that he is going to a ball that night and is going to write until then. Again referencing the "sheer virtue & self denial" that kept him from calling.