BIB_ID
107385
Accession number
MA 322.9
Creator
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829.
Display Date
1794 May 19.
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mrs. Piozzi / Streatham Park / Surry."
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.
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.
Summary
Offering her reading of a line by [Joseph] Addison; mentioning [Sarah] Siddons; asking Piozzi to explain what she means by "despicable Green-Room cant"; reporting that "Mrs. Hamilton has taken cold."
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