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Admiral George KEITH by Sophia THRALE
Admiral George KEITH by Sophia THRALE
Souvenirs de l'Amitié, a collection of 36 exquisitely detailed miniatures by Sophia Thrale of her family and friends that she began working on in 1815. Painted in watercolour on grey-tinted paper, each portrait was glued into a leather-bound book with a decorative title page and a list of all the sitters.
Date: 1815
 
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Book: 'Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson'
Book: "Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson"
Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana. 26 March 1786.

Her first book - with her personal recollections of the late Samuel Johnson.
Owner of original: 26 March 1786
 
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Book: 'Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson'
Book: "Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. 25 March 1786.
Date: 25 Mar 1786
 
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Book: 'Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D
Book: "Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. March 1788.
Date: Mar 1788
 
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Book: 'Lydford Redivivus, or A Grandame’s Garrulity'
Book: "Lydford Redivivus, or A Grandame’s Garrulity"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. 1815.

Hester’s final work, completed in 1815 but never published, was a whimsical manuscript compiling hundreds of personal names—both British and foreign—together with their supposed origins, meanings, and historical anecdotes, all delivered in the chatty, digressive style of an affectionate grandmother entertaining her grandchildren.
Date: 1815
 
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Book: 'Observations and reflections made in the course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany'
Book: "Observations and reflections made in the course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. June 1789.
Date: Jun 1789
 
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Book: 'Retrospection'
Book: "Retrospection"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. 1801.
Date: 1801
 
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Book: 'The British Synonymy, or an Attempt to Regulate the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation'
Book: "The British Synonymy, or an Attempt to Regulate the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. April 1794.

A lively two-volume guide to choosing exact and elegant words in polite discourse, it blends scholarship with anecdote and was dedicated to Dr Johnson’s memory.
Date: Apr 1794
 
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Henry Merrick HOARE (by Sophia Thrale)
Henry Merrick HOARE (by Sophia Thrale)
Souvenirs de l'Amitié, a collection of 36 exquisitely detailed miniatures by Sophia Thrale of her family and friends that she began working on in 1815. Painted in watercolour on grey-tinted paper, each portrait was glued into a leather-bound book with a decorative title page and a list of all the sitters. Sophia and husband Henry Merrik share the Hoare family crest: a fierce double-headed eagle, which bears no relation to the gentle expression of the sitters.
Date: 1815
 
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Hester Lynch Thrale (by Sophia Thrale)
Hester Lynch Thrale (by Sophia Thrale)
Souvenirs de l'Amitié, a collection of 36 exquisitely detailed miniatures by Sophia Thrale of her family and friends that she began working on in 1815. Painted in watercolour on grey-tinted paper, each portrait was glued into a leather-bound book with a decorative title page and a list of all the sitters. Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury, painted after her death in 1820 but shown in her mature heyday with dark curls, piercing blue eyes and red cheeks, was portrayed as a writer with an ink pot, quill, manuscripts and books.
Date: 1815
 
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Hester Maria Thrale (by Sophia Thrale)
Hester Maria Thrale (by Sophia Thrale)
Souvenirs de l'Amitié, a collection of 36 exquisitely detailed miniatures by Sophia Thrale of her family and friends that she began working on in 1815. Painted in watercolour on grey-tinted paper, each portrait was glued into a leather-bound book with a decorative title page and a list of all the sitters.
Date: 1815
 
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Landscape with Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough 1772-4
Landscape with Cattle by Thomas Gainsborough 1772-4
As a wedding present the Piozzis had given Sophia and Henry Merrick Hoare a painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury told Queeney:

It is a Gainsborough, scarce five Feet by four - The Subject Cattle driven down to drink, and the first Cow expresses something of a Surprize as it an Otter lurked under the Bank!

On 17 October 1807, Hester wrote of the painting …

The Subject Cattle driven down to drink, & the first Cow expresses Something of Surprize as if an Otter lurked under the Bank. It is a naked looking Landschape "done to divert Abel the Musician by representing his Country Bohenia in no favourable Light, & the Dog is a favourite's Portrait...

Sophia cannot have much cared for it as in June 1815 it was sold at Philips's in London and was later owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne and displayed in London at 1936 Gainsborough exhibition.
Owner of original: 1772-1774
 
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Lyrics
Lyrics
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury and Herbert Lawrence. Thraliana. 1777-8.

Her account of:
  • the song written by Herbert Lawrence in her praise;
  • her earlier admiration of him;
  • their estrangement due to his behaviour after the sudden death of her 9-year-old son; and
  • her song in reply.
Date: Bet 1777 and 1778
 
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Portrait: Bob Cleeve, aged 5 years
Portrait: Bob Cleeve, aged 5 years
Charles THRALE. Sep 1947.
Owner of original: Mrs Tracy Atkinson
Date: Sep 1947
 
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Portrait: David Henry Thrale
Elise Thrale. 2015.
(At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
Owner of original: David Thrale
Date: 2015
9.784851250750606, 126.71874999999999
 
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Prologue: 'Occasional Prologue'
Prologue: "Occasional Prologue"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. August 1788.

Hester and her husband Gabriel Piozzi collaborated on an Occasional Prologue for the town’s amateur theatre.
Date: Aug 1788
 
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Quotation: 'Busy people'
Quotation: "Busy people"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury.
 
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Quote: 'Business Women'
Quote: "Business Women"
Hester Lynch Thrale. Letter to James Boswell. 10 May 1783.
Date: 10 May 1783
 
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Sophia THRALE
Sophia THRALE
Headshot taken from Souvenirs de l'Amitié, a collection of 36 exquisitely detailed miniatures by Sophia Thrale of her family and friends that she began working on in 1815. Painted in watercolour on grey-tinted paper, each portrait was glued into a leather-bound book with a decorative title page and a list of all the sitters. Sophia and husband Henry Merrik share the Hoare family crest: a fierce double-headed eagle, which bears no relation to the gentle expression of the sitters.
 
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Sophia Thrale (self-portrait)
Sophia Thrale (self-portrait)
Souvenirs de l'Amitié, a collection of 36 exquisitely detailed miniatures by Sophia Thrale of her family and friends that she began working on in 1815. Painted in watercolour on grey-tinted paper, each portrait was glued into a leather-bound book with a decorative title page and a list of all the sitters. Sophia and husband Henry Merrik share the Hoare family crest: a fierce double-headed eagle, which bears no relation to the gentle expression of the sitters.
 
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Unpublished manuscript: 'The Children's Book'
Unpublished manuscript: "The Children's Book"
Hester Thrale compiled an unpublished manuscript titled *The Children's Book* (also known as *The Children’s Book, or Family Book*) for her children between approximately 1767 and 1784. The original manuscript is preserved at Harvard University’s Houghton Library.
Owner of original: Houghton Library, Harvard University
Date: BET 1767 AND 1784
 
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Verses: 'A Beard'
Verses: "A Beard"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 21 May 1787.
Date: 21 May 1787
 
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Verses: 'A fable to Miss Thrale'
Verses: "A fable to Miss Thrale"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 20 April 1778.
Date: 20 Apr 1778
 
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Verses: 'A gallows make to hang them'
Verses: "A gallows make to hang them"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. October to November 1794.
Date: BET Oct 1794 TO Nov 1794
 
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Verses: 'A Lady on April Fool Day'
Verses: "A Lady on April Fool Day"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1 April 1758.

She wrote these verses in iambic tetrameter on 1 April 1758 at Streatham Park as a lighthearted and playful piece which pokes fun at the tradition of April Fool's Day and the gullible people who are easily fooled.
Date: 1 Apr 1758
 
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Verses: 'A little Son and Heir'
Verses: "A little Son and Heir"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 15 November 1804.
Date: 15 Nov 1804
 
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Verses: 'A Tale for the Times'
Verses: "A Tale for the Times"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. December 1777.
Date: Dec 1777
 
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Verses: 'A Venetian Partenza imitated'
Verses: "A Venetian Partenza imitated"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 17 May 1781.
Date: 17 May 1781
 
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Verses: 'Address to British women'
Verses: "Address to British women"
After 1801, Hester Lynch Piozzi’s only known publication was this anonymous anti-Napoleonic broadside. In this text, England, imagined as an old woman, calls on her daughters not to faint or fall into fits in the face of French enemies but to remain strong and calm.

Attributed to Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury by William McCarthy (The Writings of Hester Lynch Piozzi: A Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 45.2 (1988): 134.). Reprinted (but not attributed) in F. J. Klingberg and S. B. Hustvedt, ed., The Warning Drum: The British Home Front Faces Napoleon. Broadsides of 1803. Berkeley: 1944.
Date: 1803
 
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Verses: 'Against drinking'
Verses: "Against drinking"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 3 June 1781.
Date: 3 Jun 1781
 
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Verses: 'An evening with Molly Aston'
Verses: "An evening with Molly Aston"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Gent Magazine viii. 211 & Thraliana. 5 July 1782.
Date: 5 Jul 1782
 
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Verses: 'An ode to society'
Verses: "An ode to society"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 27 Jun 1786.
Date: 27 Jun 1786
 
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Verses: 'Another Stroke at Martial'
Verses: "Another Stroke at Martial"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Published in the Public Advertiser. 16 March 1779.
Date: 16 Mar 1779
 
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Verses: 'Bathing'
Verses: "Bathing"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 10 Feb 1779.
Date: 10 Feb 1779
 
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Verses: 'Calais and Dover'
Verses: "Calais and Dover"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 21 May 1787.
Date: 21 May 1787
 
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Verses: 'Causes and connections of Dreams'
Verses: "Causes and connections of Dreams"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 3 January 1778 (written December 1762).
Date: Dec 1762
 
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Verses: 'Charade'
Verses: "Charade"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 11 May 1806.
Date: 11 May 1806
 
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Verses: 'Convolvulus'
Verses: "Convolvulus"
Sophia Thrale née Salusbury, aged 9. Thraliana. 6 August 1780.
Date: 6 Aug 1780
 
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Verses: 'D'un amato & fido Cuore'
Verses: "D'un amato & fido Cuore"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1787.

Hester's alternative lyrics to Sacchini’s Song of Torna pure al carobene. The poem is about the pain of being separated from a loved one. The speaker describes how her heart “languishes” and “palpitates” in the absence of her beloved. She compares the pain to “affanno” (shortness of breath) and “fatica” (fatigue). The only thing that can soothe her pain is the thought of being reunited with her beloved.
Owner of original: 1787
 
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Verses: 'Dear Mr Woodfall'
Verses: "Dear Mr Woodfall"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1760.
Date: 20 Jan 1780
 
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Verses: 'Doctor Johnson's Epigram'
Verses: "Doctor Johnson's Epigram"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. December 1777 (written 1768).
Date: 1768
 
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Verses: 'Dover'
Verses: "Dover"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 8 May 1783.
Date: 8 May 1783
 
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Verses: 'Egypt'
Verses: "Egypt"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 25 July 1801.
Date: 25 Jul 1801
 
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Verses: 'Epilogue from The Witlings'
Verses: "Epilogue from The Witlings"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. May 1778.

A satirical play about contemporary literary and intellectual circles that was initially titled Epilogue to Manuel but was renamed The Regent and then The Witlings.
Date: May 1778
 
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Verses: 'Epitaph on pretty Miss Adams'
Verses: "Epitaph on pretty Miss Adams"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 25 June 1804.
Date: 25 Jun 1804
 
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Verses: 'Eruption of Mount Vesuvius' by Hester Lynch Thrale
Verses: "Eruption of Mount Vesuvius" by Hester Lynch Thrale
Written by Hester Lynch Thrale in Naples, Italy February 1786. Thraliana entry dated 30 June 1786.
Date: Feb 1786
40.83588459999996, 14.2487679
 
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Verses: 'Fall of the Great Ash Tree'
Verses: "Fall of the Great Ash Tree"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1760 verses about the fall of the Great Ash Tree in Offley Park.
Owner of original: 1760
 
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Verses: 'First verses'
Verses: "First verses"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana.

Hester's account of her daughter, Queeney's first verses aged 12, with Hester's first verses at the same age.
 
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Verses: 'Forrester; or the old Hunter's Petition for Life'
Verses: "Forrester; or the old Hunter's Petition for Life"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 1758. Written aged 13, for her uncle, Sir Thomas Salusbury.
Date: 1758
 
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Verses: 'Friends and Enemies'
Verses: "Friends and Enemies"
Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury. Thraliana. 17 June 1804.

Hester wrote a prologue for her friend Sir Lumley Skeffington for his book Friends and Enemies.
Date: 17 Jun 1804
 

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