THACKERAY William Makepeace - ALS 1851 explaining his absence Category_RoyaltyWilliam Makepeace THACKERAY (1811 1863) Autograph Letter Signed (W M Thackeray) to My dear Mrs Hawes sending his apologies, and an explanation, for his absence from her dinner. 1 page 8vo with integral blank leaf, Kensington, 7 July n. y. [annotated on the blank leaf 1851]. I must beg you once more to bear with equanimity my absence from your kind table, but I want to go away for a months holyday with my girls and we propose to set off to Antwerp on
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Crane was well connected in Manchester
His precarious health led to his stepping down as the Sunday Times dance critic a year later
Wavell had served with the Black Watch during his military career
had I been certain of the Day of my Journey
The Strand had published some of his stories
The paper is somewhat browned at the original folds and the edges
"Thank you for your letter of the 6th August
cheerful disposition earned her many friends at court
The only pamphlet in the present collection which is fiercely pro-Royalist and condemns Marshal Ney without pity
Forbes mentions in his letter that he would like to place a portrait of Shaw in his shop
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