“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)]
Fine unsigned carte de visite of a portrait,
showing him head and shoulders, full face wearing rounded glasses, 4" x 2½", no place, no date,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
29743
£75
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[THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)]
Fine unsigned carte de visite photo by Caldesi & Co.,
showing him head full length resting his hand on a chair in front of a glass door, 4" x 2½", no place, no date,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
29745
£125
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[THACKERAY
(William Makepeace, 1811-1863, Novelist)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Herbert Watkins,
showing him head and shoulders in profile in an oval, 4" x 2½", no place, no date,
spotted and slightly faded
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
29744
£75
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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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