An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Thackeray, William Makepeace,
1811-1863
Title:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Collection
Dates:
1830-1931, undated
Extent:
3 boxes (1.26 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes manuscripts of writings,
drawings, and letters by and about the Victorian English novelist William Makepeace
Thackeray. Also present are many original sketches and drawings by Thackeray,
as
well as illustrations by Joseph Clayton Clarke, better known as Kyd. Among the
correspondents are George Cruikshank, William Charles Macready, John Reagan, John
Ruskin, and several family members, including his mother Anne Becher Thackeray
Carmichael-Smyth and his daughter Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-4193
Language:
English, French, Italian
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Sara Saastamoinen, 2012
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a
card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the
abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
