Chapter 1


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“First Term” and “Second Term” from Etchings by the late William Makepeace Thackeray, while at Cambridge... London: Sotheran, 1878. *EC85.T3255.878e (B).

 “First Term” and “Second Term” from Thackeray’s Etchings…while at Cambridge (London: Sotheran, 1878)

Sketched in 1829 or 1830, and published after his death, this humorous view of university life was very close Thackeray’s own experience.

*EC85.T3255.878e (B). Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1942.