BIB_ID
129846
Accession number
MA 322.8
Creator
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Display Date
ca. 1794 May 22.
Credit line
Acquired before 1922.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
A reply to MA 322.9, Elizabeth Farren's letter to Hester Piozzi dated 1794 May 19.
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).
Removed from Boswell's Life of Johnson in 1922.
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).
Removed from Boswell's Life of Johnson in 1922.
Summary
Mentioning the "relapse of Mrs. Hamilton"; commenting on the time she used to spend at the Bedford Coffeehouse; discussing a reading of [Joseph] "Addison's famous lines"; noting that "Addison was carefullest of all writers with regard to Punctuation."
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