Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876, John Frederick Lewis letter to William Vokins, 1863 December 25
- Call Number:
- MSS 53
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876
- Title(s):
- John Frederick Lewis letter to William Vokins
- Date:
- 1863 December 25
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 1
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- "Xmas Day 1863. My dear Vokins, Poor Thackeray has gone! I suppose you saw this morning an account of his death in the "Times". Poor fellow. What a loss! & so young too. At one time I knew him well. Your note gratified me much this morning & when I opened & saw the Photograph, I thought you had put your real self in - & had got somebody to seal you up! Thanks for it - it is very like [...] God knows yet what I shall get by April - I will do my best, if my health holds out - which (I thank God most sincerely) it does at present. The devouring bird shall not find me backward in chucking him tit bits - but he must not be too sanguine - & wait patiently till feeding time. - I will try our friend P. about the girl in the Garden, but as I do not touch that yet, we will say nought at present about it. Do you mean to occupy both houses? or turn one into workrooms? I think your brother wise in his move - Hendon is pretty, very pretty - & I should think his wife wd like it. Besides it will be nice for you & yours to run down to occasionally - Mrs. Lewis thanks you for the Photo. We both write in kind regards & believe [...] to me ever [...] Yours, J.F. Lewis W.V. Esq." William Makepeace Thackeray died 24 December 1863 at age 52.
- Additional Notes:
- With blind-embossed letterhead: Walton on Thames.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence and Exhibitions
- Subject Terms:
- AntiquitiesArtOrientalismPaintersPaintingPhotographyPricesSculptorsSculpture
- Associated Places:
- EgyptFranceGreat BritainHayes (Bromley, London, England)Paris
- Associated People/Groups:
- Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863Vokins, William, 1815-1895
- Finding Aid Title:
- Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10701.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629892
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629892?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1