BIB_ID
328361
Accession number
MA 4724.84
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Display Date
[1859 Nov-Dec.].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Francis Mahony, referenced in this letter, was an English satiric poet and journalist who wrote under the pseudonym of Father Prout.
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 note is undated; in the published letter Gordon N. Ray suggests that it was written in November/December 1859; the note has no salutation but the published letter indicates it is to George Smith.
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 note is undated; in the published letter Gordon N. Ray suggests that it was written in November/December 1859; the note has no salutation but the published letter indicates it is to George Smith.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund in 1991.
Summary
Suggesting that Mahony's alterations be omitted; asking "Who is that awful reader?"
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