BIB_ID
104370
Accession number
MA 322.1
Creator
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
Display Date
1773 Aug. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1916.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Henry Thrale Esq. / Southwark / London" but written to his wife, Hester Thrale.
Part of a collection that includes the following: Hester Piozzi's autograph manuscript of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LLD, during the last twenty years of his life (MA 322); an autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson addressed to Henry Thrale but written to Hester Piozzi dated 1773 Aug. 25 (MA 322.1); an autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson to Hester Piozzi dated 1775 Aug. 5 (MA 322.2); an autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Samuel Lysons dated 1789 Aug. 13 (MA 322.3); an autograph letter signed with initials from Hester Piozzi to Samuel Lysons dated "Saturday 10" (MA 322.4); a cancelled autograph copy of Hester Piozzi's will dated 1814 Apr. 19 (MA 322.5); an autograph letter signed with initials from Hester Piozzi to Doctor Thackeray dated "Wensday" [sic] (MA 322.6); an autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Sir James Fellowes dated 1820 June 9 (MA 322.7); an undated autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Elizabeth Farren (MA 322.8); an autograph letter signed from Elizabeth Farren to Hester Piozzi dated 1795 May 19; and engraved portraits of Samuel Johnson (MA 322.10) and Hester Piozzi (MA 322.11-12). The manuscript materials are described in 10 individual records (MA 322 and MA 322.1-9).
With postmark and seal. Also franked.
Part of a collection that includes the following: Hester Piozzi's autograph manuscript of Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LLD, during the last twenty years of his life (MA 322); an autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson addressed to Henry Thrale but written to Hester Piozzi dated 1773 Aug. 25 (MA 322.1); an autograph letter signed from Samuel Johnson to Hester Piozzi dated 1775 Aug. 5 (MA 322.2); an autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Samuel Lysons dated 1789 Aug. 13 (MA 322.3); an autograph letter signed with initials from Hester Piozzi to Samuel Lysons dated "Saturday 10" (MA 322.4); a cancelled autograph copy of Hester Piozzi's will dated 1814 Apr. 19 (MA 322.5); an autograph letter signed with initials from Hester Piozzi to Doctor Thackeray dated "Wensday" [sic] (MA 322.6); an autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Sir James Fellowes dated 1820 June 9 (MA 322.7); an undated autograph letter signed from Hester Piozzi to Elizabeth Farren (MA 322.8); an autograph letter signed from Elizabeth Farren to Hester Piozzi dated 1795 May 19; and engraved portraits of Samuel Johnson (MA 322.10) and Hester Piozzi (MA 322.11-12). The manuscript materials are described in 10 individual records (MA 322 and MA 322.1-9).
With postmark and seal. Also franked.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from E.D. Brooks, 1916.
Summary
Describing his travels in Scotland, including visits to Inchkeith, St. Andrews, Dundee, Aberbrothick, and Aberdeen; commenting on Lord Monboddo, "the Scotch Judge who has lately written a strange book about the origin of Language, in which he traces Monkeys up to Men, and says that in some countries the human Species have tails like other beasts"; mentioning that he received Thrale's letter in Aberdeen and is glad that her children have recovered from the measles; noting that he saw "women in plaids" but that "shoes are indeed not yet in universal use"; reporting that the libraries in Aberdeen "were not very splendid, but some manuscripts were so exquisitely penned, that [he] wished [Thrale could] have seen them."
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