BIB_ID
326735
Accession number
MA 470.39
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1848 Dec.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Month and year 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.
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
Sending a book [i.e., probably a manuscript], noting that he is sending it a day late because he was working on the closing ballad and telling him to "ask Forster ask posterity what they think of it;" asking him to send the plates with the copy and noting that the frontispiece is to be "the boy drawing the caricature."
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