BIB_ID
326583
Accession number
MA 470.16
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1859 Aug. 3?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.1 cm
Notes
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.
Written on Athenaeum Club stationery.
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.
Written on Athenaeum Club stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
A lighthearted note in verse, asking what he, the "most hard-to-please of men," thinks of "William Mitchell's patent broad-nibbed pen." With a postscript remarking that "a gentleman has just passed my table with a sweet smile on his face, and in his hand the last number of THE V.RG.N..NS."
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