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Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: [Adolphus, J.L.]
Letters: 1
Date(s): 11 May [1848]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: Apologising for a speech at a dinner the previous evening and expressing doubts as to the merits of "Vanity Fair". As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Bedingfield, Richard
Letters: 3
Date(s): "Tuesday"; "Sunday"; [c.29 Jan 1843]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: 1) Dated "Kensington, Tuesday" accepting an invitation for the following Monday. 2) Dated "Kensington, Sunday" excusing himself from the Monday evening engagement. Signed with initials. 3) Envelope with postmark 29 Jan 1843. As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Bentley, Richard
Letters: 2
Date(s): [1838]; 11 Oct 1853
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters. Mentioning "Oliver Twist" and "Baraby Rudge". Declining to write a life of Walpole.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Bevan, [Samuel]
Letters: 1
Date(s): [c. 1849]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: Covering letter enclosing MS of the ballad "The Three Sailors". As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Carlyle, Mrs Thomas
Letters: 1
Date(s): 2 Mar 1841
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters. Mentioning his wife's illness, &c. Signed with initials.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Churchill, H.B.
Letters: 2
Date(s): [postmark 4 Nov 1850]; 9 Nov [c.1859]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: 1) Envelope addressed to H.B. Churchill, with short note indside the flap. 2) Written on the back of a printed letter "To a Contributor", dated 1 November 1859. As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: [Crowe], Eyre
Letters: 1
Date(s): 13 Oct [1855]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: "Dear Sir & Madam"
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Egerton Leigh: Literature, Science, Art & Music Autographs,
p.43
Note: With portrait opposite.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Hamley, ( )
Letters: 1
Date(s): 21 Jan [1859]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: Referring to his work on "The Virginians" (written 1857-59). As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Hood, Thomas
Letters: 1
Date(s): 6 Sep [1860]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: Address and date and an interpolated sentence written in his upright hand, the rest in his slanting hand. As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: James, Mrs
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: Declining an invitation owing to the birthday of "me child", i.e. Anne Isabella, afterwards Lady Ritchie. As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.
Sender: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Recipient: Locke, ( )
Letters: 1
Date(s): 2 May [n.y.]
Location: BC MS 19c Thackeray
Note: As described by Dr Eric Millar in typed list, kept with letters.