Thackerays Letters To An American Family

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.

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First published in 1994, these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N. Ray in 1945-46. In writing to his broad range of correspondents, Thackeray produced a varied body of letters that will help readers to better understand his nineteenth-century society as well as his professional and private life — especially his relationships with women. These volumes contain 1713 letters: 1464 to and from Thackeray that were not included in the earlier volumes, and 249 with texts that have been edited from newly available manuscripts, and that thereby replace texts that were printed in Ray from incomplete sources.