BIB_ID
328937
Accession number
MA 4724.180
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1863 Oct.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 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 B that Thackeray has sketched has the body of a serpent looped back towards a file which is the straight edge of the letter.
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed "45, Pall Mall. S.W."
The letter B that Thackeray has sketched has the body of a serpent looped back towards a file which is the straight edge of the letter.
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed "45, Pall Mall. S.W."
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Writing above the sketch, "Strange to say on Club Paper;" drawing a pencil sketch of the Letter B and writing under it "A serpent biting a file."
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