Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 1863) Four years after the birth Of his son, Rich mond Thackeray died. In 1817, at the age of five, owing to the climate Of India, young Thackeray was sent to relatives in England. The parting with his mother on the river-front at Calcutta made a lasting impression, to which he fre quently alluded in his writings. The Thackeray family had always been in good circumstances, and although they were living far away from the home Of their ancestors, under the then unsettled government Of India, the influences Of his childhood were of the nicest kind. His mother, Anne Becher, was descended from a family also long in the civil service Of Bengal, and was distinguished as one Of the beauties of her time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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