Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to Doctor [William Makepeace?] Thackeray, "Wensday" [1784-1821].

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.
Signed "H.L.P."; the letter must have been written after Piozzi married in 1784.
The letter is addressed to "Doctor Thackeray"; it is unclear whether Piozzi is writing to William Makepeace Thackery, physician in Chester, or to his brother, Thomas Thackeray, surgeon in Cambridge. William Makepeace Thackeray seems more likely since Piozzi is known to have corresponded with him.