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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial; text-transform:uppercase'>“I Am Stabbed Through Johnson”</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'><BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>AMs, 1p, 8vo, n. d., n. p. Approx 220 words with numerous corrections in Thackeray’s small, neat holograph concerning a piece of writing being promoted by a woman through a male friend. “...<i>a few lines from my friend Johnson, it is true, but they are written on a page covered with feminine handwriting. ‘Dear Mr. Johnson’ says the writer. ‘I have just been perusing with delight a most charming tale...I think it would be admirably suited to the Cornhill Magazine. As you know the editor will you...communi-cate with him per-sonally’...There it is. I am stabbed through Johnson. He has lent himself to this attack on me</i>...” Boldly penned. Unsigned. From “On Screens in Dining Rooms,” “Roundabout Papers” No. 6, Aug 1860.</span></p>