BIB_ID
328857
Accession number
MA 4724.160
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1862 May].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.0 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 letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on the verso of stationery embossed with the Cornhill Magazine crest; on the recto Thackeray has written and then crossed out "The title of the large wood-block is Judith and Holofernes."
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on the verso of stationery embossed with the Cornhill Magazine crest; on the recto Thackeray has written and then crossed out "The title of the large wood-block is Judith and Holofernes."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Apologizing for the "meagreness of 2 of the pages of Philip: and am most vexed at the lateness of the whole thing;" saying he was ill in Paris and then again when he came home; saying he will "go to work on July as soon as I have had a cup of tea."
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