BIB_ID
328473
Accession number
MA 7332.2
Display Date
"Friday night" [1852].
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Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
Part of an album of materials relating primarily to William Makepeace Thackeray's 1852 tour of America.
Possible year of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
With a small clipping from a newspaper advertising an available wet nurse pasted to the foot of p. 3.
Possible year of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
With a small clipping from a newspaper advertising an available wet nurse pasted to the foot of p. 3.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
An anonymous fan letter noting that she had never read his works but that she has heard him speak, and remarking that she likes him "so much!" Mentioning that she is now reading Vanity Fair and that every half-line she exclaims with "a glorious burst of admiration."
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