PIOZZI, Hester Lynch (1741-1821). Writer.
Autograph verses comprising six four-line stanzas on a narrow slip, ca 202 x86 mm. (8 x 3½ inches), unsigned, no date (trace of former mounting on reverse). A note on the reverse signed by J[ames] F[ellows] reads: 28 July 1815. I drank tea with Mrs Piozzi at Blakes Hotel Jermyn Street & whilst eating an excellent muffin she gave me these sapphics which she had been writing.

'Is it of Intellectual Powr's,
Which Time developes, Time devours,
Which Twenty years perhaps are ours,
That Man is vain?...'

Sir James Fellowes (ca 1771-1857, physician) became the literary executor of Mrs Piozzi in 1821, and inherited her manuscripts and the copies of those of her published writings which had manuscript annotations.
Provenance: from a collection formed by A.M. Broadley in 1903.
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