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Call Number:
MSS 29
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741–1821
Title(s):
Letter to William Makepeace Thackeray
Date:
1809?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
[55]
Provenance:
Paul Mellon Collection.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

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 Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Piozzi discusses Mr. Piozzi's health, writing that, while his delirium is gone, his "ulcer exhibits a Hole in which you may bury a small Phial" and Mr. Moore refuses to consider the possibility of gangrene. Mr. Piozzi suffers from the cold and a variety of other painful symptoms, and Mrs. Piozzi herself is ill with nerves. She does not approve of Mr. Moore's diagnoses. People mentioned: Mr. Piozzi, Mr. Moore, Dunscombe and Mr. Heaton.
Physical Description:
4 pages (2 leaves) : 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, Gabriele Mario, 1740-1809
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/2637
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2637?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1