BIB_ID
327835
Accession number
MA 470.96
Creator
Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896.
Display Date
1887 Nov. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Enclosed in a letter from J. Pearson & Co. to Daly (MA 470.95).
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 "18 Neville Street S.W."
Written in the hand of an unknown amanuensis; signed "This letter is written at my request. - I am dear Sir yours faithfully Jane Octavia Brookfield."
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 "18 Neville Street S.W."
Written in the hand of an unknown amanuensis; signed "This letter is written at my request. - I am dear Sir yours faithfully Jane Octavia Brookfield."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Summary
Saying that Messrs. J. Pearson & Co. have informed her of his purchase of her Thackeray letters; asking him to assure her in a personal letter of his agreement to not publish the letters.
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