Detail View: Rylands Collection: Thackeray preface
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Image Number:
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JRL050427dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 728
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Image Title:
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Thackeray preface
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Parent Work Title:
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Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray, etc.
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Creator:
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Page/Sheet:
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5
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Image Sequence Number:
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005
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Description:
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Fragment of the preface to "Rebecca and Rowena" written by Thackeray but signed in the pseudonym A.M. Titmarsh, and dated Kensington, December 15th. A pen and ink sketch shows the author in bed.
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Language:
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English
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Subject:
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English literature
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Technique Used:
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Drawing (image-making)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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19th Century CE
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People Covered:
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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Private papers
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Notes:
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Finding aids: M. Tyson, Handlist of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1929), and additional volumes by M. Tyson (1935), F. Taylor (1951), and G.A. Matheson and F. Taylor (1977); F. Taylor, Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 21-31; card index of autograph collections.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2005-04-25
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Gten
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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