Abstract
Twelve previously unpublished letters of William Makepeace Thackeray shed new light on his relations with Byron's friend and executor Sir John Cam Hobhouse, afterwards Baron Broughton. The acquaintance evidently began in May 1850, when Hobhouse-who as President of the Board of Control had a considerable amount of Indian patronage at his disposal-gave the novelist's nephew Edward Talbot Thackeray a cadetship at the Royal Indian Military College at Addiscombe. Thackeray visited Hobhouse at Erle Stoke, near Westbury, Wiltshire, in December 1850 and January 1852, and the two men continued to correspond off and on until February 1860. Thackeray's letterseleven to Hobhouse himself and one to his half-brother Thomas Benjamin Hobhouse-are here transcribed from the manuscripts in the Broughton Papers (British Library Add. MS 47229).
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