page_title: William Garrow Lettsom
section_title: Literary acquaintance
hierarchical_section_title: William Garrow Lettsom / Literary acquaintance
caption_attribution_description: English: A page from Lettsom's book on mineralogy.
context_page_description: William Garrow Lettsom FRAS was a British diplomat, mineralogist and spectroscopist. He was instrumental in procuring the publication of the secret Treaty of the Triple Alliance between Argentina, the Empire of Brazil and Uruguay.
context_section_description: As an undergraduate at Cambridge University Lettsom befriended the author William Makepeace Thackeray and was the (or an) editor of The Snob in which some of Thackeray's earliest work appeared; Lettsom has been identified as the character Tapeworm in Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair. Lettsom was well acquainted with the cartoonist George Cruikshank, illustrator of the early works of Charles Dickens.  Lettsom was a contributor to various literary periodicals under the pseudonym Dr. Bulgardo.
caption: An extract from Lettsom's book on mineralogy.
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