BIB_ID
328925
Accession number
MA 4724.175
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1862 Aug.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 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.
Thackeray wrote to Anne Benson Procter asking her who were her favorite heroes in novels. (MA 4724.171).
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed "Palace Green, / Kensington, W."
Thackeray wrote to Anne Benson Procter asking her who were her favorite heroes in novels. (MA 4724.171).
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed "Palace Green, / Kensington, W."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying that "Punch, Sala, the Illustrated Papers have made the royal marriage so common that I could do nothing with it;" enclosing a Roundabout for his opinion; adding, in a postscript, that he has written to the "2 greatest novel readers of my acquaintance with a question What are your favorite heroes heroines in Novels?"
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