Record ID:
324620
Accession number:
MA 469.27
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description:
1 item (1 p., with address) : ill. ; 16.5 cm
Notes:
Illustrated with a sketch of a nightingale singing while perched on a drooping rose.
Possible year of writing identified by Ray.
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to "Mrs. Brookfield."
Part of a collection of letters primarily from William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield. Letters in the collection have been described individually; see related collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Concerning an invitation he received from Mr. Benedict to meet Jenny Lind the following day and describing his response in which he contrived to invite his mother and Mrs. Brookfield as well. Suggesting that he meet her at nine o'clock to "accompany you to the Swedish Nightingale."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
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