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Call Number:
MSS 29
Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Title(s):
Letter to William Makepeace Thackeray
Date:
1811 October 5
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
[74]
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 relates how her dairy maid went mad two years ago and was taken with money and good clothes to an asylum. She has returned to Piozzi's parish a pauper and Piozzi wishes to help her, perhaps by sending her to an asylum in Liverpool. People mentioned: William Chappelow, Piozzi's dairy maid, and the dairy maid's brothers.
Physical Description:
2 pages (1 leaf) : autograph letter, signed ; 23 x 19 cm.
Genre:
Correspondence and Letters
Subject Terms:
Authors, English
First Coalition, War of the, 1792-1797
Gout
Medicine
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Physicians
Politics and government
Subject Period:
1789-1820
18th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
Thackeray, 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/2657
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2657?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1