BIB_ID
327837
Accession number
MA 4724.22
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1855] Sept. 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
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 from George Sala to Thackeray asks to be recommended to Smith & Elder for his proposed book on Hogarth; Thackeray has written his letter to George Smith on the verso of p. 1 and on the recto of p. 3 of Sala's letter.
The year of writing is from the letter from George Sala to Thackeray; Sala's letter is dated September 21, 1855; Thackeray dates this letter September 22.
Written from 36 Onslow Square.
The letter from George Sala to Thackeray asks to be recommended to Smith & Elder for his proposed book on Hogarth; Thackeray has written his letter to George Smith on the verso of p. 1 and on the recto of p. 3 of Sala's letter.
The year of writing is from the letter from George Sala to Thackeray; Sala's letter is dated September 21, 1855; Thackeray dates this letter September 22.
Written from 36 Onslow Square.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Recommending Mr. Sala to him for his proposed book on Hogarth; adding that he plans to deliver to him "an edition of 'the Georges. Sketches of courts, manners and town life,' and if I do a book of travels I shall bring it [sic] you but this is hardly likely. I shall more likely do the Esmonds of Virginia."
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