Letter from William Makepeace Thackery to TW Gibbs college student attended by hangers on of

attended by hangers on of various professions

this ring ye ask shall never be yours

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Letter from William Makepeace Thackery to TW Gibbs college student attended by hangers on ofLetter 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