BIB_ID
301928
Accession number
MA 3939.10
Creator
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821.
Display Date
1821 Jan. 13.
Credit line
Gift of Edward Powis Jones, 1978-9.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.7 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.
The letter is detached from the bound volume.
With postmark.
The letter is detached from the bound volume.
With postmark.
Summary
Mentioning a coach accident in which she feared he had been injured; discussing etymology and mentioning Tom Payne [Thomas Paine?]; ,describing villages in Cornwall; regretting that she is living in such reduced circumstances; imagining him in his role as Coriolanus; telling him that she went to look at some ships; hoping that she will not die in 1821; commenting on the weather.
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