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Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to Samuel Lysons, 1789 Aug. 13.

BIB_ID
129648
Accession number
MA 322.3
Creator
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Display Date
1789 Aug. 13.
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Samuel Lysons Esq. / Rodmarten / near Cirencester."
From an extra-illustrated copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson.
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 trace of a seal.
Summary
Telling him that she was "glad to leave Glasgow, where [she] found much Merit but no Attractions"; remarking that the inhabitants of Glasgow were "so amiable, they would have made any Place delightful"; discussing her travels and mentioning the cathedral at Carlisle, Penrith, Ullswater, and Derwentwater; reporting that they are driving to Winander [Windermere] tomorrow; comparing the scenery in the Lake District to the scenery in Scotland.