BIB_ID
129845
Accession number
MA 322.4
Creator
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Display Date
"Saturday 10" [1788-1817?].
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24 cm
Notes
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).
Signed "H.L.P."
The letter is dated "Saturday 10." The body of the letter addresses "Mr. Lysons" (whether this is Daniel or Samuel Lysons is unclear) and mentions an appointment in May. If this letter was written on Saturday, May 10, it must have been written in 1788, 1794, 1800, 1806, or 1817 (i.e. after Piozzi's marriage in 1784 but before her death and in a year in which May 10 fell on Saturday).
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).
Signed "H.L.P."
The letter is dated "Saturday 10." The body of the letter addresses "Mr. Lysons" (whether this is Daniel or Samuel Lysons is unclear) and mentions an appointment in May. If this letter was written on Saturday, May 10, it must have been written in 1788, 1794, 1800, 1806, or 1817 (i.e. after Piozzi's marriage in 1784 but before her death and in a year in which May 10 fell on Saturday).
Summary
Promising to wait on him on May 15; noting that they may want "to go see Kew Garden" if the weather is fine; remarking that she "should like to look at a kangaroo in full Liberty."
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