BIB_ID
328959
Accession number
MA 4724.183
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1863] Dec. 17.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Written from "Palace Green" on stationery embossed with Thackeray's monogram crest.
Written from "Palace Green" on stationery embossed with Thackeray's monogram crest.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying he has been in bed for four days "with an instrument of torture inserted in my urethra;" discussing a meeting he attended [National Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee] and explaining why he did not want to become involved; saying he hopes to finish Denis Duval soon and then "I must go to work with a will for I have spent 1000£ more than I have earned in this lazy luckless year;" closing by saying that "Yesterday BURGLARS entered our house, and robbed my poor mother & girls of watches, trinkets, diamonds--all my little presents, lockets, bracelets to poor Anny since she was 15."
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