BIB_ID
326727
Accession number
MA 470.33
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1848] Nov. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 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.
Year of writing identified by Ray.
Year of writing identified by Ray.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Concerning Charles Lever's attack on him in Punch, noting "I have pushed the caricaturing of myself almost to affectation -- but it wont profit Lever to gibbet a rival that way" and remarking that "somebody should tell him that such behaviour will hurt him without in the least injuring me."
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