BIB_ID
328864
Accession number
MA 4724.164
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1861 July] 31.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.4 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 month and year of writing is from the published letter.
The month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying his "muse has been very costive in these latter days;" adding that he has completed a Roundabout and 13 pages of Philip; wishing him and Mrs. Smith a good journey; acknowledging that "Philip" should be going to America on Tuesday, August 6 but that if he wanted it by Friday the 2nd, he would finish it "by hook or crook."
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