BIB_ID
328964
Accession number
MA 4724.184
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1862 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 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's announcement of his resignation as editor of the Cornhill Magazine was made public on March 25, 1862.
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on a letter to Thackeray from George Smith.
Thackeray's announcement of his resignation as editor of the Cornhill Magazine was made public on March 25, 1862.
The letter is undated; the month and year of writing is from the published letter.
Written on a letter to Thackeray from George Smith.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Responding to a letter from Smith suggesting the Roundabout Paper would be a "better plan for the announcement" [of Thackeray's resignation as editor of the Cornhill Magazine]; saying that the "farewell paper reads pleasantly enough this morning and might go on the back page. I had better do a Roundabout too."
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