THACKERAY
(Anne Isabella, 1837-1919, from 1877 Lady Ritchie, Novelist, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Madam',
saying "the Lectures will be in the morning but nothing is yet settled & a printed notice will be forwarded to you as soon as our arrangements are determined upon", 2 sides 8vo., 16 Onslow Gardens, Tuesday 11th no month or year, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
54735
£75
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THACKERAY USES BOTH FORMS OF WRITING AND WANTS TO HELP A FRIEND'S WIDOW
THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Kinglake', in his sloping hand
saying that "yesterday's papers just come in have shocked me and grieved me beyond telling - is that poor widow in want? If so, and you hear of any prospect for expressing sympathy or offering relief - or think of setting any such plan afoot do remember me and that I think most kindly and affectionately of our dear old friend ... I write to you because I want to speak to some one about it - don't trouble yourself to answer unless you hear there's money wanted - I have some of mine and some of Higgins's - God help us: suppose the lot were mine and my young ones sitting at home fatherless. In such a case fellows like you would help them and it must be a certainty that poor Eliot can have left little behind him: wont it be well that some scheme should be set a going to make a little purse for the orphans? Isn't Mrs Eliot in some way connected to Lord John Russell? That's a pity on account of the pension, but one must be got for the widow and children of this kind gentle soul this good man this gifted charming writer. And the other thing should be done, and you and Milnes and I should put our names down - but you two first and especially - I daresay you have thought of it yourself, and are twice as good a man of business as I am, and I only write because as you say yourself one's impulse is to write on these occasions and to relieve myself by speaking to a friend about a dear old comrade gone to his account ..." with a postcript in his upright handsaying that he "came to town on Saturday, and wanted to come to day but that my host here made such a pt that I could not say no any more ...", 3 sides 8vo., Erlestoke, Westbury, Thursday, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
36342
£1500
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THACKERAY
(Anne Isabella, 1837-1919, from 1877 Lady Ritchie, Novelist, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray)
Signature and Subscription from a letter,
ending "We shall be delighted", laid down on piece 2¼" x 4½", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
56094
£25
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“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
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Herbert Watkins
showing him half length, seated with his hand resting on the back of his chair, 4¼" x 2½", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38441
£275
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