Lysons family letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1820.

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Lysons family letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1820.

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This collection consists of 62 letters from Hester Lynch Piozzi: 16 letters to Daniel Lysons, and 47 letters to Samuel Lysons. The early letters to Samuel Lysons from 1784 to 1787 are particularly noteworthy, as they were written while Piozzi was traveling in Italy and relying on his assistance with her Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1786) and Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., (1788). Other letters are largely social in nature, and written mostly from Piozzi's homes in Streatham Park near London; Bath, England; and Brynbella near Denbigh, Wales.

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Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson (Houghton Library)

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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821

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Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century life. From the description of Autograph poem, unsigned, an adaptation of Francis Fawkes's "An Autumnal Ode, " no date [paper watermarked 1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864928 From the description of...

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834

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Topographer Daniel Lysons received both a B.A. and M.A. at Oxford, and, having taken religious orders, became curate in Mortlake and later Putney, Surrey. It was here he began his survey of the London region, later published in four volumes, with many drawings by the author. Together with his brother, Samuel, he undertook a survey of Britain called Magna Britannia, but only six volumes were completed before Samuel's death. He also provided illustrations for other works, and published several rel...

Lysons, Samuel, 1763-1819

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Antiquary. From the description of Letter, 1814. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 50658808 Antiquary. Samuel Lysons, 1763-1819, assisted his brother, Daniel Lysons, on the "Magna Britannia." From the description of Letter, 17??. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 50658614 ...

Lysons family,

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Daniel Lysons (1762-1834) graduated from Oxford, and served as the curate of Putney (London, England) from 1789 to 1800. He was a noteworthy antiquary and topographer, and published Environs of London in four volumes from 1792 to 1796. Daniel's younger brother Samuel Lysons (1763-1819) began studying law in Bath in 1780, where he first befriended Hester Lynch Piozzi in January of 1784. He relocated to London, was called to the bar in 1798, then served as Keeper of the Records in London from 1803...