Letters To An American Family With Original Drawings By Thackeray

Excerpt from Thackeray's Letters to an American Family Sketches Of Pages Of Various Periods, For A Fancy-Ball Costume; Caricatures Of Longfellow, George William Curtis And "Uncle Tom"; Facsimile Of A Letter To Mrs. Baxter Postmarked Boston, December 30, 1852; The Clarendon Hotel, Thackeray's Home In New York City; Facsimile Of A Part Of A Letter Written In December, 1852; Sketch Of A Cupid Within The Envelope Of A Note Sent From Washington, February 19, 1853; Facsimile Of A Part Of Letter From Washington, February 19, 1853; Facsimile Of A Part Of The Letter On; Facsimile Of The Verses Sent On April 15, 1853, To Miss Lucy W. Baxter; Sketches Of A Medieval Page, For A Fancy-Ball Costume About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...was for the first time in my life that I saw the thing, which was as correct as one of your balls or ours for all I could see--& the women, 0 the beautiful dresses and daring gaiety! Corbin had a dinner the same day of heavy American and British company, from w I went to the young men's party. And I have given some restaurateur-feasts myself w1? have been tolerably pleasant having a notion to make Punch pay for them by a series of Gastronomic articles--and 1 have been racketting about as usual: getting C 100 n now and then a day to myself away from fashionable gossip from family gossip qui n'est guere moins supportable: and I have had some capital days and walks with my girls the sight of whose happiness makes me happy. Shall I write you a pleasanter letter soon? next week? tomorrow? This is not one--only to see that I am Yours sincerely always w. M. T. This is a postscript written in a hurry--to pray your good father not to mind the awful price of this letter wl? it is too late to pay it w1? it is written in the office of a newspaper correspondent with 6 people talking round about. I have just come out of the height of good society, Lady Cowley, Lady Sandwich, Lady Waldegrave, Lord Bath and here's quite another set, and a pleasanter perhaps--C. C. Clifford is related to the Duke of Devonshire--with the bar sinister, a very worthy good young man. I dont know Lefevre--the Speaker's son I suppose--I did n't see Hatty. I only care for Hatty " on fire" and a few, very few more.... I wish I was where this letter is a going. It wasn't worth while to keep the letter open for these fadaises, was it? What compliments you have got to paying me of late!--I went and got your lasl; letter and read it over before I came out. Hence all...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.