BIB_ID
301892
Accession number
MA 3939.7
Creator
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Display Date
1820 July 20-24.
Credit line
Gift of Edward Powis Jones, 1978-9.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
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.
With postmark.
With postmark.
Summary
Telling him never "to hate the Profession in which [he] first engaged [her] Admiration" [acting]; quoting Samuel Johnson; commenting on her visit to Exeter Cathedral; quoting [Prosper Jolyot de] Crébillon; describing her journey through Cornwall; noting that the harvest in Cornwall is two months behind Somerset; giving details of her day in Truro; writing a poem ("Verses made on a Milestone in Cornwall," first line: "The Journey now begins to advance"); asking him questions about actors in London.
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