@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social stumbled on this blog post - did Hester's letters ever make it to the open web? Just wondering, I'd love to read them. The drawings of the dogs in this post are wonderful; belated thank you for sharing them! rylandscollections.com/2016/10/04/t... - ThreadSky

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hecate527.bsky.social • 4 days ago

@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social stumbled on this blog post - did Hester's letters ever make it to the open web? Just wondering, I'd love to read them. The drawings of the dogs in this post are wonderful; belated thank you for sharing them! https://rylandscollections.com/2016/10/04/the-uncatalogued-lives-of-hester-thrale-piozzi/

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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hello! Thanks for your interest… sadly the project we envisaged didn’t get off the ground (partly due to lack of interest f/ funders) but maybe you know there’s an edition covering many (not all) of her later life letters. 6 vols of ‘em! I hope someday to compile the rest. https://www.nlx.com/collections/99

hecate527.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you! I think I own 4 of the volumes, still hunting for the elusive ones. 😂

sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m trying to think of writings which might be digitally open access… the Houghton Library has digitised Minced Meat For Pyes & Lyford Redivivus, and possibly others. Have you seen those? And Three Dialogues On The Death of Hester Lynch Thrale can be read here: https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/journals/bjrl/16/1/article-p77.xml

sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social•3 days ago

(Ignore the v outdated introduction by Zamick, or read with an enormous pinch of salt.)

sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh I’ve just seen that they’ve taken down the full text! Boo. I have it saved somewhere, so can email if helpful.

hecate527.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you, a very kind offer! I suspect I have it somewhere too. 😂

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