“W. M. THACKER AY WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE YOUR BACKER!”
THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)
Pair of Autograph Letters Signed in his upright hand to George Augustus SALA
(1828-1896, Journalist & Writer), the first, signed ‘W. M. Thackeray’ saying that “Mr Langley has just brought me the Critic (which I never see or hear of except from him) and which says how you are going to edit the Temple Bar Magazine, and how I have said Hogarth was ‘dull verbiage’. Who writes these lies? I mean that lie in the last sentence. Hogarth was not dull, or the deuce is in it. I have always spoken of it as liking it heartily. I thought of Temple Bar for a frontispiece for our own Magazine, and wish prosperity to your’s. There are people enough in London to crowd Temple Bar and Corn Hill too, and my belief in our success helps another. May your head long be on the top of the Temple Bar Mag!...”, 1 side 8vo., 36 Onslow Square, 27th September with the year put in in another hand as 1860, the second letter is signed with initials asks “Where is that note I wrote just now directed to Upton Court near Slough. To say that W. M. Thacker Ay would be happy to be your backer? The note has disappeared under the heap of papers & will turn up 2 months hence or perhaps has gone to the post already. The purport of it you see. A wet blanket is always good hydropathic practice. If we are killed, we are killed. I was, at the Traveller next door and survived the dose. I only had one pill but the man gave it expressly because I was a deed literary fellow...”, 1 side 8vo., no place, dated in another hand March
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
43596
£1475
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THACKERAY USES BOTH HIS SLOPING AND UPRIGHT HAND IN ONE LETTER
THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in full, in his sloping hand to “My dear Dean” with his address in his upright hand,
saying that “you and Mrs Trench are very kind to think of the girls and their father. We shall all be very happy to come to you on Tuesday...”, 1 side 8vo., 36 Onslow Sq., S.W., 3rd February
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
43595
£325
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THARAUD
(Jean, 1877-1952, French Writer and Academician)
Autograph Letter Signed 'Tharaud' to Monsieur Premsela,
of 24 Juliastraat, Zwolle, Netherlands, in French with translation, thanking him "again ... for your kindness" and explaining that his and his brother's 'Morocco' "is not a new work, it is an anthology of pages taken from 'Rabat' and 'Marrakech'", 1 side 8vo with autograph envelope, 7 rue Théophile Gautier, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 26th March
(Translation)
7 Rue Théophile Gautier, Neuilly-sur-Seine.
26th March 1923.
Dear Monsieur, Again, thank you for your kindness!
The 'Morocco' ['Le Maroc'] you talk about in your letter is not a new work, it is an anthology of pages taken from 'Rabat' and 'Marrakech'.
With cordial greetings,
Tharaud
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
56345
£125
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THE WHISPERER
Contemporary MS extracts from Nos. 1, 7, 11, 14-15, 56, 63-64 and 93
of the witty and scurrilous weekly periodical, published in 100 numbers from 17th February 1770 by William Moore, in a fine copy book hand, stitched in paper covers, 79 sides folio (the gatherings numbered 1-20), no place, no date but c.
mostly loose in stitching, cover a bit worn
Item Date:
1772
Stock No:
52595
£375
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THOMPSON
(Mrs. Katherine, d.1862, Author of 'The Court of Henry VIII')
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir',
saying that "Mr Acton Warburton has kindly promised to send me a copy of his work - so that I need not trouble you to forward the clean sheets ... I hope Mr Bentley is recovered", Welbeck Street, London, 2 sides small 8vo., 3rd February, n.y., c.
lightly browned in parts, margins trimmed to size
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
13397
£20
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