BIB_ID
327889
Accession number
MA 4724.31
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1859] Sept. 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.0 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 year of writing is from the published letter.
Written from "Pavilion. Folkestone."
The year of writing is from the published letter.
Written from "Pavilion. Folkestone."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Discussing possible contributors to the new periodical; saying that "As I think of the editing business I like it. But the Magazine must bear my cachet you see and be a man of the world Magazine, a little cut of Temple Bar, or Charles I on the outside?" adding that he is "surprized [sic] I have finished the Virginians so well--O what a load is off my mind!"
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