BIB_ID
328487
Accession number
MA 4724.119
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1860? June].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
In a note to the published copy of this letter, Edgar F. Harden says that "Ray interprets the letter as a reference to Thackeray's Roundabout Paper for August 1860, "On Screens in Dining-Rooms." This identification and the date of the letter, however, remain conjectural."
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 is undated; the date of writing is from the published letter.
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 is undated; the date of writing is from the published letter.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying he has been "lying awake 1/2 the night about that paper in a sort of despair--but I think I have found a climax dignified and humourous at last Heaven be praised and that our friend won't sin again."
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