BIB_ID
329564
Accession number
MA 4724.266
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1860 Aug.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 11.2 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 is simply dated "It appears to be Thursday;" the month and year of writing are from the published letter.
The letter is simply dated "It appears to be Thursday;" the month and year of writing are from the published letter.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Saying he has been "down with my confounded spasms again and forgot all about the packet. The 2 days are over and I am just out of the wood;" saying he may be having his step-father and mother with him at "T.W. [Tunbridge Wells] but "where am I to sit and how am I to work with those old folks in a house wh. is already too full?" adding that he received a letter "in the most prostrate repentance" from Langley [his secretary] but that he intended "to stick to his resignation."
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