BIB_ID
329204
Accession number
MA 4724.249
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1860 Feb.] 28.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Letter MA 4724.90 from Thackeray to Smith, written earlier the same day, also discusses the charges Lucas raises against 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.
Samuel Lucas, editor of Once a Week, published by Bradbury and Evans, accused the Cornhill Magazine of trying to recruit his contributors.
The month and year of writing are from the published letter.
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.
Samuel Lucas, editor of Once a Week, published by Bradbury and Evans, accused the Cornhill Magazine of trying to recruit his contributors.
The month and year of writing are from the published letter.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Telling him he still supports him completely in the "Lucasian difficulty" and he has "a right to deny in almost any terms charges put in such absurdly offensive language--& to demand a substantiation of the charges. Yet You on your side I think have replied too fiercely--so fiercely I mean that he begins to get the advantage wh. he had lost through his first move;" adding that he will be back on the following day and "I'll see you if you like. B & E dont seem to know what is going on. I see a card to dine with them as usual but I'll keep out of that of course.
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