SD1705. William Makepeace Thackeray to Anne Carmichael-Smyth
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 363 (in part).
[Rome]
31 December. 1853.
My dearest Mammy I am sitting in the dark with a horrible pen …
Mrs Sartoris, Mrs Browning, Mrs Story & others are as kind as may be to the children …
Text: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Gordon N. Ray (Cambridge, Mass., 1945–46), 3, 332–334.
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