BIB_ID
327833
Accession number
MA 470.94
Display Date
1887 Nov. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.4 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 J. Pearson & Co. stationery.
Written on J. Pearson & Co. stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Concerning his purchase of a group of letters from Thackeray to the Brookfields; discussing his promise not to publish the letters and asking him to write to Mrs. Brookfield personally as "she is very nervous ... and does not want any of her friends to know she has parted with the letters." Promising him first refusal on all future Thackeray letters. With a postscript warning him about some recent Thackeray forgeries.
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