BIB_ID
327854
Accession number
MA 470.1-103
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1828-1889].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 box (103 p.) ; 28.2 cm
Provenance
Sold by Jane Brookfield through J. Pearson & Co. to Augustin Daly in 1887-1889; purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1900.
Summary
Collection consists of 24 letters from Thackeray to Jane and William Brookfield; 26 letters from Thackeray to various correspondents, including Edward Chapman; and an autograph poem, an autograph draft of a speech and an autograph draft of a humorous article. Collection also contains 35 letters to the Brookfields from various correspondents (including Charles Dickens, Gladstone, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson) and additional letters relating to the sale and provenance of the collection. Items in the collection have been described in 103 individual catalog records; see related records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.2 cm)
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