BIB_ID
327829
Accession number
MA 470.91
Creator
Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896.
Display Date
[1887] Oct. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.5 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 on stationery embossed "5, Neville Street, Onslow Gardens."
Written on stationery embossed "5, Neville Street, Onslow Gardens."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Agreeing to sell her additional Thackeray letters for a lower price if he will agree to the same conditions as for the other letters: "that they are not to be re-sold or scattered about, but to form part of a private and valuable collection, which belongs to an earnest admirer of their gifted writer."
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