Lot n° 306
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THACKERAY (William Makepeace). Autograph letter signed addre - Lot 306
THACKERAY (William Makepeace). Autograph letter signed addressed to Joseph-Francis Olliffe, a French doctor of Irish origin, who treated Charles Dickens among others, dated "Tuesday": "My dear Olliffe I am engaged tomorrow I am very sorry to say. Yours ever WM Thackeray" Enclosed: THACKERAY RITCHIE (Anna). Autograph letter signed March 15, 1899 "Dear sir, I am afraid I can't tell you anything that I have not said in the prefaces to the last edition of my father's books. He was leaving in the Avenue Ste Marie when he wrote the second funeral of Napoleon in 1840. It race fr. the Roule to the Arc de Triomphe he then had a [...] in the Champs Élysées of his first home in Paris there is something said in a book by W. Eyre crowe called the Earles Homes og Thackeray. That gentleman might possibly help you as you wrote to him at hte Reform Club Pale Male. We once lived in the maison Valin in the Champs Élysées for some monthes in 1854. My father used to stay at the Hotel Bruloé and the Hotel des Deux Mondes when he came to see his family. I believe he lived in the rue d'Augustin when he was first married. Believe me yrs faithfully. " Expert : Nicolas ASVISIO
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