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.

Letter : New York, to George Smith, 1852 Nov. 26.

BIB_ID
327598
Accession number
MA 4724.7
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
1852 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso of p. 3, "W. M. Thackeray / New York 26 Nov. 1852."
Part of a collection of letters from William Makepeace Thackeray to George D. Smith. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
The letter is in the hand of Eyre Crowe; Thackeray's signature has been excised along with the lower portion (6.1 cm) of p. 3.
The letter is written from the Clarendon Hotel.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Relating the details of a publishing offer for his lectures; discussing his reception by the press; adding that "Writing, thinking, & quiet, are however, here impossible, though money-making proceeds at a brilliant rate."