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Description: This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, correspondence, financial documents, portraits, pictorial works, realia, and forged manuscripts and correspondence. The collection includes original portraits by Samuel Laurence, John Leech, and George Robert Lewis, as well as self-portraits in pen-and-ink, water color, and pencil. Also included are pen-and-ink, pencil, and water color portraits and illustrations by Thackeray. The manuscripts include holograph poems, essays, lectures, portions of novels, notebooks, and diaries for 1845 and 1860, as well as miscellaneous manuscript materials relating to the author. The correspondence includes letters by Thackeray, from [1828]-1863, to William H. Ainsworth, Lucy Baxter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sir Henry Bulwer, Mr. Chapman, Chapman and Hall, Sir Henry Cole, George Cruikshank, Charles Dickens, Edward Fitzgerald, John Forster; to the committee of the Garrick Club, to Catherine Frances Gore, Leigh Hunt, Mrs. William Milbourne James, Sir William Knighton; to the Reverand Charles De la Pryme, to William D. Robinson, to the Reverand A. J. Scott, William Wetmore Story, Mrs. Alfred Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, and others. There are also letters, from 1846-1937, relating to the author between various correspondents including Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Horace Greeley, Charles Dickens, Sir Leslie Stephens, and others. There are letters to Thackeray from Jane O. Brookfield, the Rev. W. H. Brookfield, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Cruikshank, Charles Dickens, Edward Fitzgerald, James Hannay, Bryan Waller Procter, Alfred Tennyson, and Frances Trollope, dating from 1843 to 1863.
Names: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (Creator); Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 (Addressee); Arnold, William Harris, 1854-1923 (Former owner); Baxter, Lucy W (Addressee); Berg, Albert A., 1872-1950 (Former owner); Berg, Henry W., 1858-1938 (Former owner); Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 (Correspondent); Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896 (Author); Brookfield, Jane Octavia, 1821-1896 (Inscriber); Brookfield, William Henry, 1809-1874 (Author); Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 (Author); Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (Author); Cole, Henry, 1808-1882 (Addressee); Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 (Correspondent); Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874 (Contributor); Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 (Author); Dalling and Bulwer, Henry Lytton Bulwer, Baron, 1801-1872 (Addressee); De La Pryme, Charles, 1815-1899 (Addressee); Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Author); FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 (Author); FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 (Former owner); Forster, John, 1812-1876 (Addressee); Gore, Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances), 1799-1861 (Addressee); Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 (Correspondent); Haber, Louis I. (Former owner); Hannay, James, 1827-1873 (Author); Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) (Former owner); Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 (Addressee); Ingraham, Phoenix (Former owner); Laurence, Samuel, 1812-1884 (Artist); Leech, John, 1817-1864 (Artist); Lewis, George Robert, 1782-1871 (Artist); Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 (Author); McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928 (Former owner); Perry, Kate, approximately 1810-1901 (Former owner); Poor, Henry W. (Henry William), 1844-1915 (Former owner); Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896 (Former owner); Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 (Former owner); Robinson, William Duer (Addressee); Scott, A. J. (Alexander John), 1805-1866 (Addressee); Spoor, John A. (John Alden), 1851-1926 (Former owner); Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904 (Correspondent); Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895 (Addressee); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 (Addressee); Tennyson, Emily Sellwood Tennyson, Baroness, 1813-1896 (Addressee); Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933 (Former owner); Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 (Author); Van Duzer, Henry Sayre, 1853-1928 (Former owner); Young, Owen D., 1874- (Former owner); Chapman and Hall (Addressee); Garrick Club (London, England) (Addressee); Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (Author); Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (Addressee); Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (Artist)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1828 - 1937 (Inferred)
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Thackeray [Text]
Topics: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863; Forgeries
Genres: Correspondence; Notebooks; Portraits
Notes: Biographical/historical: William Makepeace Thackeray was a British novelist, short story writer, artist and illustrator.; Content: Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
Physical Description: Extent: 751 items
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15823743; MSS Unit ID: 19122; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): fbc1c250-a127-0139-6072-0242ac110004

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