BIB_ID
329160
Accession number
MA 4724.227
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1861 Nov.-Dec.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
"The Quadrilateral" was written by Captain Edmund Frederick Du Cane and appeared in the January 1862 issue of the Cornhill Magazine.
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 is referring to H. Sumner Maine.
The letter is undated; the date of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed with the Cornhill Magazine crest.
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 is referring to H. Sumner Maine.
The letter is undated; the date of writing is from the published letter.
Written on stationery embossed with the Cornhill Magazine crest.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Relating his illness of the last 3 days; commenting on an article, "The Quadrilateral" and drawings for it; suggesting that "H. Sumner Mayne [sic] write an article.
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