BIB_ID
328219
Accession number
MA 4724.61
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Monday" [1860] Apr. 9.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.3 cm + envelope
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.
Thackeray was enclosing an article written by his daughter Anne; it appeared in the May 1860 issue of the Cornhill.
The year of writing is from the published letter.
Thackeray was enclosing an article written by his daughter Anne; it appeared in the May 1860 issue of the Cornhill.
The year of writing is from the published letter.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Discussing certain future contributions to the Cornhill Magazine; sending him a "little Contribution called 'Poor Scholars' wh[ich] I send you, and wh[ich] moistened my paternal spectacles.....Papas, however, are bad judges--you decide whether we shall have it or not."
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