Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, Letter to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1810 July 4
- Call Number:
- MSS 29
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
- Title(s):
- Letter to William Makepeace Thackeray
- Date:
- 1810 July 4
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- [67]
- Provenance:
- Paul Mellon Collection.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- Piozzi requests Dr. Thackeray's advice in choosing a horse for Salusbury--"something safe for my sake, and something showy for his." She discusses the dry weather and the political situation and laments Sir Lucas Pepys' loss of his Countess, "a companion of uncommon Power of Mind,--& 800 Pounds a Year." People mentioned: Piozzi's steward, Salusbury, Selina Thackeray, Dr. Thackeray's brother, Sir Francis Burdett, Sir Lucas Pepys and Countess (Pepys' former wife).
- Physical Description:
- 3 pages (2 leaves) : autograph letter, signed ; 23 x 19 cm.
- Genre:
- Correspondence and Letters
- Subject Terms:
- Authors, EnglishFirst Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797GoutHorsesMedicineNapoleonic Wars, 1800-1815PhysiciansPolitics and government
- Subject Period:
- 1789-182018th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Pepys, Lucas, Sir, 1742-1830Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
- Finding Aid Title:
- Hester Lynch Piozzi Letters to Dr. William Makepeace Thackeray
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/16.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2650
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2650?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1