BIB_ID
115985
Accession number
MA 3939.2
Creator
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Gift of Edward Powis Jones, 1978-9.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Includes 8 lines of poetry beginning with "Down Time's rapid Stream to Eternity's Ocean."
Part of a collection of autograph letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi to William Augustus Conway. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 3939 for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi to William Augustus Conway. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 3939 for more information.
Summary
Saying that she has had "a Sort of Warning that [her] Temporal Existence is at length coming rapidly to a Close"; writing some lines of poetry to her "best loved" and "latest-found Friend"; noting that the poetry accompanies "an Excellent Gold repeating Watch destined as [her] last Present"; asking him to remember "Poor Bessy and her dear little Boy."
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