Letter from William Makepeace Thackery to TW Gibbs mb-artistname T Hogg Malcolm Campbell in Bluebird

Malcolm Campbell in Bluebird

This was intended to remove religious discrimination from education

Russia had recently issued its declaration to renege on the terms of the 1856 Paris Treaty which prohibited it claiming any sovereignty over the Black Sea

A view from the street

Destruction of the Armoury in the Tower of London by fire

Letter from William Makepeace Thackery to TW Gibbs mb-artistname T Hogg Malcolm Campbell in BluebirdLetter from William Makepeace Thackery to TW Gibbs, Kensington, 12th September 1851. Letter from the writer William Makepeace Thackery to TW Gibbs on some passages in Laurence Sterne's letters and on his Bramine's Journal, addressed to Mrs Eliza Draper (the 'Eliza' of Sterne's Sentimental Journey) in 1767. From the first series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I