Thrale/Thrall history

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Fairest Product of the Field,
Scent and Fragrance thou dost yield,
Oh lovely, beauteous Flow’r!
Thy Charms indeed are more than I can tell,
They please the Sight, the Sense, the Smell,
And shew thy wondrous Pow’r.—
On 6 August 1780, Sophia's mother wrote in Thraliana of young Sophia's verses …
The other two Girls leave me tomorrow they will do very well; Sophy has a Turn for making Verses, bad enough to be sure, yet such a Turn shews Genius in a Girl who was nine Years old only a fortnight ago. The following is one of her Attempts forsooth upon a wild Convolvulus which She picked up here between Brighthelmstone & Rottenden.

Sophia Thrale's verses aged 9, "Convolvulus"




Date6 Aug 1780
Longitude10
Linked toSophia Thrale

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