THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in his upright hand to 'My dear Mr TITE'
(Sir William, 1798-1873, Architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, MP) telling him that he has "no new lecture, and do not like to read the old printed ones for if I begin I shall have 100 letters from Societies all over the country to answer, to refuse, to make angry ...", 1 side 8vo., Palace Green, Kensington headed paper, 22nd June
Item Date:
1863
Stock No:
40387
£575
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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
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0
Stock No:
38441
£275
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THACKERAY
(Anne Isabella, 1837-1919, from 1877 Lady Ritchie, Novelist, daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray)
Autograph Letter Signed to Lord SHUTTLEWORTH
(Sir James, 1st Baronet, 1804-1877, Founder of English Popular Education) thanking him for his kind words which “comfort me tonight as I sit reading all the kind words that have come - & indeed we need comfort but it is not nothing to realise how he is loved & that his good faithful works will go on & that he will not be forgotten...”, 2 sides 8vo., on mourning paper, 109 St George’s Sq, 2nd November no year
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0
Stock No:
43450
£75
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THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter in pencil Signed in his upright hand to ‘Dear Mayhew’
saying that “the book is sold already with thanks to your publisher. I have not time as yet to appear as a public man, and would rather keep my name out of even meritorious undertakings until such time as I can work in them to some purpose - which with the present extraordinary success of those lectures would be very... But suppose I break down? I am on the sofa after a small illness and have lost 3 nights this week...”, 1 side 8vo., Halifax, 14th February no year
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0
Stock No:
43805
£775
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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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