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THRALE, Hester Lynch (1741-1821, from 1784 Mrs Piozzi). Autograph letter signed ('H.L. Piozzi') to Reverend Reynold Davies, Bath, 2 March 1803, asking for reports of his health and that of 'the Child' [Piozzi's nephew and their adoptive son, John Salusbury Piozzi]: 'We hear sad Reports of London's great Unhealthiness ... Mr Piozzi has had this influenza very badly indeed ... Send me some Words of Comfort as Baretti used to say; and write seriously, for 'tis no Joke to see one's best Friends ill so', one page, 4to, on a bifolium, integral address leaf (to Davies at Streatham), traces of guards; [with] a letter to Hester Thrale by William Ridlington, n.p., n.d. (referring to her as 'Hester Lynch Cotton'), employing a pseudo-legal style to criticise an ode of hers, 4 pages, 4to (traces of guards).
Reverend Reynold Davies was the curate of St Leonard's, Streatham, and head of a boys' school, built on the Piozzis' land, at which John Salusbury Piozzi was educated.
Reverend Reynold Davies was the curate of St Leonard's, Streatham, and head of a boys' school, built on the Piozzis' land, at which John Salusbury Piozzi was educated.
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