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 : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1887 Apr. 14.

BIB_ID
327689
Accession number
MA 470.89
Creator
Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896.
Display Date
1887 Apr. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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.
Written from "33 Onslow Square S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Assuring him that if she had an example of Thackeray's signature she would have sent it to him; remarking that she finds it "very curious" that he only ever signed his letters to her with his initials. Enclosing some "short scraps" and apologizing that she is unable to part with his longer letters, noting that she intends for them to pass to Thackeray's daughter on her death.