THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPIECE. Autograph letter signed ("W.M. Thackeray") to "My Dear Lady D.G." [Lady Duff-Gordon?], London, n.d. ("Kensington Square...Friday"). 1 page, 8vo, written in brown ink in a joking manner ENTIRELY IN SERPENTINE-SWIRLS covering the page; framed with a portrait, 16 1/2 x 20 in. (42 x 51 cm.) overall.Accepting an invitation (in a circuitous way): "This is quite a new and [pooty?] way of writing and I use it in opes [sic] it may console you and amuse you in your present trouble. If you please may I come after dinner on Saturday as you know my duty to Punch obliges me to attend his dinner at 5 o'clock: And I have already refused two parties on that very account: but you know you are different and though I see you seldom I want to see you hoften [sic] and hoften [sic] and I am always your friend and well wisher..." Not in Letters, ed. G. Ray, and presumably unpublished.