Lot 146

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Estimate

2,500 - 3,000 USD

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Description

Thackeray, William Makepeace
Autograph manuscript fragment from "On Screens in Dining Rooms," from "Roundabout Papers no. 6," published in Cornhill Magazine, volume 2 (July - December 1860), p. 253
ink and paper

1 page (4 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.; 118 x 150 mm), 16 lines, with autograph corrections; a few small inkstains. Accompanied by an engraved portrait, from an original drawing by Samuel Laurence.

Condition

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Catalogue Note

A wonderful fragment from Thackeray's diatribe on the abuse of literary figures by the press.

Thackeray writes in response to an ill-natured attack on George Smith (editor of Cornhill) by Edmund Yates written for a New York paper. "Certain writers, they say, have a bad opinion of women. Now am I very whimsical in supposing that this disappointed candidate will be hurt at her rejection ... Poor old Priam's bald numskull will be cracked, and Troy town will burn, because Paris prefers gold-haired Venus to ox-eyed Juno and grey-eyed Minerva."