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
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36342
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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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[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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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 'Dear Miss Frere',
telling her that they "duly came home from Hampshire late on Saturday and found your kind little note. We are starting again almost immediately. Thank you so much, we should have liked it immensely ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date
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Stock No:
40946
£65
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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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