BIB_ID
328867
Accession number
MA 4724.166
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1862 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 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 dated "6 o'clock Monday"; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed with the Athenaeum Club crest.
The letter is dated "6 o'clock Monday"; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed with the Athenaeum Club crest.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying that he was "quite right to decline writing that parting address. It has taken me from 2 o'clock till now and isn't done--I shall carry it off to a certain haunt of mine where the Port is very very old & good and hope to finish it there."
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