BIB_ID
328558
Accession number
MA 7339.2
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1847 Dec.?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Described by Harry B. Smith in his catalogue "A sentimental library" (privately printed, 1914), p. 246.
Envelope with seal and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 102 Upper Ebury St. / Pimlico / with 2 Bottils/ Mumsy My deary."
Part of a small collection of letters of Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible month and year of writing from Harden.
Envelope with seal and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield / 102 Upper Ebury St. / Pimlico / with 2 Bottils/ Mumsy My deary."
Part of a small collection of letters of Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible month and year of writing from Harden.
Provenance
Harry B. Smith; presented to Gordon N. Ray, president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1963-1985 on the occasion of his retirement with the deep gratitutde and warm regard of the Board of Trustees; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Sending two bottles for that evening's drinking with (his daughter?) Harriet.
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